Southern Tibet : vol.4 / Page 353 (Color Image)

0353	Southern Tibet : vol.4

there we find some bush vegetation with small earth cones kept together by the
roots and occasionally with some sand accumulated at their lee side. Hares are
numerous. The winding river is immediately to our right. Sometimes the terrace
is broken through by ravines, formed by watercourses from the Ladak Range. The
valleys are short, but deep-cut, and have, as a rule, flat fans at their mouths. On
the Transhimalayan side we have, after Gallse, a comparatively flat group with
small transverse valleys.

The valley now becomes more and more narrow and at both sides the moun-
tains are near. The different branches of the Gartang join in one bed. The stream
is slow, the water perfectly clear and fish are abundant. The bed is gravelly. The
colour of the mountains is pink and brownish. Just at the entrance of a very narrow
defile, Camp CCLII, Nima-lung, was pitched. The gorge is winding between ter-
races some 20 m. high, and here the river forms rapids among blocks and boulders.
Of the Transhimalayan or right side of the valley, Pan. 354, Tab. 63, is made. It
shows, to the N. 17° W., the narrow gorge between its high terraces, and a rather
solid mass to the north and N. E. To the S. E., is the open valley in the direction
from which we have arrived.

On October 21st, we continued in the same direction for 18.3 km. to Camp CCLIII,
where the altitude is 4,372 m. or 50 m. below the previous camp, giving a fall at
the rate as 1: 366.

Leaving Nima-lung, a place known for its numerous wolves, but still used
as a camping place as could be seen from the remains of many camps, we slowly
ascend small valleys and ravines, with some gravel of granite and gneiss, and lose
sight of the river and its narrow passage. In the gorge, sedimentary schist cropped
out, otherwise we did not pass any living rock the whole day, as the Gartang had
worked its bed down through pebbles and shingle, sand and clay. From the left,
opens a tributary called Nima-lungpo. A little side valley, parallel to the main
valley but sloping in the opposite direction, takes us up to the flat and open thre-
shold, Chagring-la, 4,534 m. high, adorned with a cairn and a pole with rags and
mani-streamers. To the north the hills fall slowly down to the river, the gorge of
which is visible at a distance. No snow-covered peaks are in sight. To the S. E.,
in the direction of Jerko-la, distant mountains still rise above the horizon. Con-
tinuing our journey, we pass a second mani cairn and descend a very steep ravine
between nearly perpendicular side-walls of pebbles and shingle and leading out to
the tributary valley, Chagring-rong, which after a while joins the Gartang valley
in a little plain covered with grass.

From here the road follows the river, which is immediately to our right. It
very often forms small rapids. The road is very good, and the quantity of gravel
insignificant. It is very comfortable for riding. One sees that it is an important

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