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0576	Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3

The road to Camp 418 turns south-westwards over open and convenient
ground of clay and fine gravel, a broad valley surrounded by comparatively high
mountains. Along their foot hills old beach-lines are clearly seen. To the N.W.
is the depression of Chunit-tso, though the lake itself is not visible from this road.
The slopes at the S.E. side of this valley are often very steep; some of them are
called Gyunggung-nakpo and Gyunggung-karpo. Behind a headland on the N.W.
side there is said to exist a depression, Nam-tso-tangi, with a little lake, Nam-tso. To
the S.E. are the valleys Saglam-lungpa and Kero, and a district called Jamri. In
the background, E.S.E., is a dark mountain, Nerva-tsanor. A road goes up the
Saglam-valley to Lapchung, crossing two passes: the Tarag-la and the Dicha-la.
The Tarag-la must be a saddle in the Lapchung range, the Dicha-la we remember
as a threshold between the Lapchung range and the Kanchung-gangri. Camp 418
is at 4 786 m.
The valley continues to the S.W. and its rise is not noticeable to the eye; it
is filled with swamps and freshwater pools, the abodes of many wild geese. Merke-
sang is an extremely low threshold of quartz-porphyry and sandstone, and surrounded
by the Gyamri mountains. It affords, however, an extensive view over the plain,
which I crossed from north to south, when travelling from Chunit-tso to Buptsang-
tsangpo, and which is called Merke-shung. Camp 419 at Gole-tata in the eastern
part of this plain, is at a height of 4 788 m.
From here again opens the imposing view of the head-range of the Trans-
himalaya to the south; S. 27° W. is a fairly isolated snowy peak, west of which
there is said to be a road to Tradum; it crosses a pass, from which the valley
Dsalung runs north to Buptsang-tsangpo; the name of the pass was unknown, though
one would have expected Dsalung-la as the most likely. Further west, or S. 60° W.,
is a great valley Lungmar from Lungmar-la, said to be 2½ days distant. To the
S. 80° W. is a small snowy peak, Shangjung-gangri, round which are several pass-
ages over the Transhimalaya, but no important roads. At the foot of the hills
W.N.W. is a place, Merka. The mountains to the N.E. are called Gyamra-rigy;
to the S. 45° E. is a low pass Chiptu-la, one day's march distant, and with a road
to Bongba-kyangrang; over this pass many pilgrims from Nakchu to Kang-rinpoche
are said to travel. Between S. 41° E. and S. 26° E. is a prismatic mountain called
Ri-sema, and S. 13° E. is mount Serte-rigü.
At Camp 420 on the Buptsang-tsangpo, the height is 4 776 m. From Camp
419 to Camp 420 the road crosses the open perfectly level plain with hard soil, fine
gravel and very little grass. Approaching the river and the western side of the
plain the ground becomes undulating. The right erosion terrace of the Buptsang-
tsangpo is here some 25 m high and rather steep. The river was here divided in-
to two branches, carrying some 8 cub. m in all. From Camp 420 there is said to
be a road over the right side hills to Tarok-tso, along which the grass is better
than in the valley of the river.

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