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0584 Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3
Southern Tibet : vol.3 / 584 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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From Camp 429 the road continues westwards up through the Surle valley,
which is comparatively narrow, and shut in between considerable mountains. Its
bottom is undulated, and covered with gravel and tussock grass. The rock is quartz-
porphyrite and quartzite. From S. 57° W. enters the valley Hlolung which is greater
than the Surle, and the brook of which provides about ³/4 of the volume of the joint
river. The junction is called Surle-Hlolung. High mountains with eternal snow are
seen at the left or northern side of the Hlolung valley. A very high mountain group
with many glaciers rises between both valleys. Leaving Hlolung the road runs along
the top of the Surle terrace. At Camp 430 the height is 5 525 m. Between the
mountain shoulders at the northern side of the valley a glacier is seen.

The road from Camp 430 to Camp 431 is of special interest, as it crosses the
Surla range, one of the highest and most massive ranges of the Central Trans-
himalaya. The rise towards the pass is very steep amongst gravel and moss. The
Surle-chu is fed by the brooks from three or four glaciers to the W.S.W. One of
these glaciers especially, looking north, is considerable; its snout is abruptly cut, and
the blue-green ice is beautifully visible; the surface is white and partly covered by
moraines; in front of the snout there is a little, still frozen moraine-lake. The western
neighbour of this glacier is smaller, and west of it is a road over the Tapchak-la.
This pass looks rather inconvenient, and is, just like the Sur-la, secondary, for at
its western side the drainage goes to the north, obviously to Pedang-tsangpo and
Shovo-tso. From Tachak-la a road is said to continue westwards to Shang-la or
Shangu-la, which is a first class water-parting pass, though I could not make out its
situation. The nomads of this region had no other name than Gangri for these
mountains, just as the Turks say Mus-tagh or the Ice mountain. They believed the
Men-la, Tapchak-la and Sur-la were situated in one range, which is hardly likely.

The uppermost part of the Sur-la valley is a real basin surrounded by glaciers,
névées, and eternal snow. Leaving the Tapchak road to the left or west our road
goes up a little side valley, full of gravel and leading to the pass generally called
Sur-la, but sometimes Sur-la-Kemi-la, which is 5 832 m high. The rock is granite.
Such passes as Lunkar-la, Sur-la and Ding-la, situated on the crest of ranges, are