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granite. Two cone-shaped peaks (K 3 and K 3a), or Gusherbrum, were visible
ahead. Higher up on the glacier he saw »the great Peak K 2 on the watershed
of Asia! — the worthy culminating point of a range whence those waters have
their sources which drain such vast regions. The elevation of Peak K 2, as deter-
mined by Capt. T. G. Montgomerie, R. E., is 28,265 feet.»¹
The Biaho glacier he estimates to be 35 miles long. The Biafo, on which
he made a short trip, he estimates at 40 miles in length. Then he went down the
Braldoh valley, passing Hoh Loombah with a large glacier, and had a dangerous
crossing of the river Braldoh in skin-rafts.
Regarding the Braldoh trackways, GODWIN-AUSTEN gives us some interesting
information.
The principal exit from the Braldoh valley is that to Yarkund over the Mustakh.
According to the reports given me, the glacier on the northern side is as long as that
on the southern, but in my opinion the journey would be longer, as I do not think that
the way lies down its main stream, but that the main body of the ice would be towards
the great Peak K 2, with another from the Peaks of Nobundi Sobundi. About four
marches from the Mustakh Pass a track branches off to the westward, up a lateral stream,
and over a ridge to the Hunzè river, by which the Braldoh people have often gone, as
being safer than by Nagayr. . . .
Many years ago the main traffic lay up the Baltoro glacier, twelve miles east
of the present Mustakh pass. The former pass became impracticable owing to the
great increase of snow.
On August 28th he started for the Basha branch of the Shigar River, visited
Arundu and went up on the glacier of Chogo or Basha. Of the grand view he
enjoyed from here he says:² »To the northwest there was the great glacier of the
Basha, with the little village of Arundu at its termination, its fields touching the
ice. On the west there was Peak B 14, or Haramosh, with its fine summit of
eternal snow towering above all the minor cones and from which the lateral feeders
in that direction were evidently derived. But the Nushik La and its glaciers were
not visible, being shut out by the great intervening mass of ridges, and spurs, and
glaciers.»
On September 3rd he made a new start, and went up the valley of the Kèro
Loombah. Glaciers from side-valleys now and again close a main valley, by which
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