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0293	Southern Tibet : vol.4
南チベット : vol.4

pass, from which the view is magnificent. The red and pink limestone mountains
to the north are now going to disappear behind us. Far below us is the *Nasa*
valley and just north of it, the little threshold we had crossed the day before.
Farther north is the winding course of the *Bogtsang-tsangpo*. Such is the view
to the north. The road up to the pass, may be seen on Pan. 101A and 101B,
Tab. 17, where the pass saddle is to the S. 36° E., and where we get an impression
of the range in which it is situated. To the N. 75° E., on the same panorama, we
see the valley which goes down from *Nasa* to the *Bogtsang-tsangpo*. From the
pass I sketched a panorama that is not entered in my *Atlas* as it was already
published in Vol. I of my personal narrative »Transhimalaya«, p. 297 (Swedish edi-
tion). The storm was furious on this height. The country to the south had only
partly been seen by Nain Sing, but never by a European. To the S. E. the view
is partly hidden by a pink and red rock with steep sides. At a long distance to
the S. S. E., a dark mighty mountain mass was rising, with eternal snow-fields, and
cut through by deep transverse valleys. Its highest peak was to the S. 14° E. and
another to the S. 23° E. Its form reminded me very much of the *Mus-tagh-ata*. The
whole mass, which we perhaps saw in a foreshortened perspective, was very steep to
the west and had a gradual slope to the east, where the snow-fields were very extensive.
Between S. 23° and 14° E., there was, at the base of this mountain, a lake of mo-
derate size, situated, as it were, in a deep depression below us. This lake must be
the *Tang-yung-tsaka* first mentioned by Nain Sing and entered on his map. Only the
northern part of the lake had a blue colour, the rest of it was a dirty red, perhaps
from dust and sand, blown thither by the wind and covering the ice. It was im-
possible to make out the contour lines of the lake, as its eastern and western shores
seemed to be hidden.

From *Gyanyak-la*, a valley goes down straight south to the *Lar* valley where
*Camp LXXXVII* is located. To the S. 5° E. is a high part or shoulder of the
ramifications closing this valley to the west. South of the *Lar* valley there is a
range which we would have crossed in a new pass if we had continued to *Tang-
yung-tsaka* and *Dangra-yum-tso*. This range stretches east and west like the one
we crossed in *Gyanyak-la*. To the S. 18° W. is the highest peak of another group,
smaller than the first-mentioned one and situated S. W. of the lake. Of the *Dangra-
yum-tso* nothing is to be seen, but one has a feeling that it must be situated between
the two snow groups just mentioned. To the S. 36° W. is a smaller snow peak
not so far as the first two. To the S. 20° E., we behold the wild narrow valley,
which, after having received the little tributary from the pass, just at our *Camp
LXXXVII*, turns to the S. E. and, as mentioned above, probably goes down to the
lake; at both sides of this valley wild rugged rocks are rising. The whole scenery
to the south is beautiful and fascinating. It is a very accentuated mountainous

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