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0274 Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2
Southern Tibet : vol.2 / 274 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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In 1869 SHAW also went down the same way. He saw one glacier protruding
from a side valley, causing a difficult ford. About 3 miles lower down another
glacier, Kichik Kumdan, blocked the way right across to the opposite rocks. Shaw
crossed the glacier on foot, but had to send his ponies round by Murgo.

In the autumn of 1873 the members of the FORSYTH mission did not meet
any great difficulties, for the Kichik Kumdan and Chong Kumdan did not block the
valley completely. The travellers could pass through a narrow passage in water
between ice and cliffs. They had not to pass over ice at all. The Chong Kumdan
was easier to get past than the Kichik Kumdan.

In 1874, J. SCULLY travelled from Leh to Yarkand, via Kardong, Tagar, Pana-
mik, Changlung, Sasser and Murgo. From his camp at Sasser, 15,224 feet high,
and some 400 feet above the level of the Shayok river, he saw, in front, a range
of high and barren rocky mountains forming the eastern side of the valley; »to the
left the course of the river can only be seen for a short distance where the Shayok
valley seems to be blocked up by an enormous glacier called Kumdan.» ¹ As he
followed the Murgo and Kisil-unkur road, the Kumdan road had therefore, in the
course of a year, been completely closed.

In 1889 and 1890 YOUNGHUSBAND travelled from Sasser to the Kara-korum
pass along the Shayok.

In the end of October 1892 DUTREUIL DE RHINS and GRENARD passed
the Kichik and Chong Kumdan. They had to ride in the water along the edge of
the snouts, without crossing any ice.

In 1898 NOVITSKY passed this way. He knows only one glacier which he
calls Chum Khumdan. He had no difficulty at all in passing, for he went on the
right side of the river and had no ice to cross. There must have been a very
strong advance in the following four years.

In April 1902 I travelled the way northwards, and could still pass, though
with some difficulty.² Already the next year CROSBY and ANGINIEUR had to take the
Murgo road so far as can be seen from their meagre reports. In December 1907
and in 1908 STEIN had to follow the Murgo road as the Kumdan road was
closed. In 1905 even the Aktash glacier is reported to have advanced across the
river-bed.