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0657	Southern Tibet : vol.4
南チベット : vol.4

It was hard work to climb the pass. We seemed never to reach the top.
A little farther on it became visible that the *firn* basin of the second glacier at least
partly was in connection with the *névés* of the first glacier. The view increases in
grandeur the higher we reach. Sometimes one has the impression of walking between
low stone-houses and walls in villages when the pilgrims' road is winding between
the blocks. The several religious customs of the pilgrims, I have described in my personal
narrative. Some of the blocks are round, others sharp-edged, all are grey, and all
sizes are represented, from small blocks to quite gigantic ones. Sometimes one can
rather talk of a block-scree with steps trodden for centuries by thousands of pilgrims.

The last slope up to the pass is very steep and full of blocks. To our right
is a considerable mountain covered with snow which on its surface is formed into
ice, shining like pure white metal. A part of it forms a little hanging glacier, the
edge of which is abruptly broken off. To the north of us is a pass of no importance,
as it leads to the *Tseti* valley only. Our track follows the top of a ridge of blocks
with small rillets at both sides. There is no interruption in the series of blocks with
pyramids of votive-stones on the top. In bad weather and snow they show the road.

The *Kailas* is not in sight. From the pass itself it is also hidden. On the
pass there is a gigantic block with poles and rags as shown on Pan. 321, Tab. 58.
The same panorama shows the *Kailas* group so far as it is visible from *Dolma-la*.
The view is magnificent. To the south is the little hanging glacier mentioned above.
The little lake on the other side of the pass is not yet visible, but we see the ice
which stretches down from the mountain and is cut off at its southern shore.

Near the pass the living rock is the same as before; »graue, biotit- und horn-
blendeführende Granite (Quartzbiotit-diorite)» is the diagnose given by Professor
Hennig.¹ There is also »glimmerreiche Verwitterungsmasse».

From the pass our road goes down very steeply between thousands of blocks
to the little lake, called *Tso-kavála* by the pilgrims. On p. 212, Vol. II, is a photo
of it, showing the ice-edge standing vertically at its southern shore. The pilgrims'
road follows the northern shore. Here is a belt of open water from 1 to 5 m.
broad; the rest of the little lake, or rather pool, was frozen. The ice was white
and full of cracks. Along the southern shore the ice seemed to be very rotten.
Our guide said the lake never becomes quite ice-free. It is a moraine-lake.

Having passed *Tso-kavála* we again descend steeply as before. To our right
the wild rock walls continue, as seen on the last-mentioned panorama, and photo.
The rocks are vertically cleft as hitherto. There are fantastic formations like pyra-
mids and towers and one pillar had the form of a mushroom. When these formations
crumble the screes of blocks increase.

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