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0381	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0381

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

Yarkand road from the neighbourhood of the Shayok River. He ascended E 61,
many miles further to the east, in 1865 in the course of his celebrated journey to
Ilchi.¹ He also points to the fact that on STEIN's map in the Geogr. Journal,
Dec. 1902, the peak of Johnson, E 61, appears as Muztagh, with an altitude of
23,890 feet.

In the Alpine Journal of the same year Dr. Longstaff, entered the question
at greater length.² He reminds us of the fact that W. H. Johnson was a member
of the Indian Survey Staff, and worked, in Kashmir, 1860—65.

Very weighty evidence must be required, therefore, to upset his identification of the
actual points which he reached. It is one thing to say of a 'mere mountaineer' that he
mistook his position or his peak, and quite another to suggest this of a professional sur-
veyor. As a matter of fact, I believe no one has as yet questioned Johnson's identifications
of the peaks he climbed in 1865 from the Kuen-Luen plains.

Longstaff quotes the very favorable opinion of MONTGOMERIE and other
authorities (R. G. S.) regarding the important services Johnson had rendered to geo-
graphy.³ General J. T. WALKER, on the other hand, suppressed the official reference
to Johnson's ascent of E 61. It was the statement of Johnson's ascending to 23,890
that was suppressed, but the ascent of the peak was not questioned. The question
is, therefore, the height of E 61. Longstaff claims that Johnson indeed has ascended
the three Kwen-lun peaks. It is only the altitude of the highest of the three peaks
that is disputed.

On his memorable journey, 1900—1901, M. A. STEIN tried in vain to get
information about the road to the south, the same by which JOHNSON appeared to
have come.

At the same time the serious and very puzzling discrepancies I discovered between
the sketchmap of Mr. Johnson's route and the actual orography of the mountains south
of Pisha convinced me that I could not dispense with local guidance. 4

Of this passage Longstaff says:

»He is rather severe (p. 214) on Johnson's hurried sketch-map of the northern
slopes of these ranges, of which he had only had bird's-eye views but bears out
Johnson's general description of the country.» However, the height of Johnson's
peak was officially accepted as 23,890 feet. And it was obvious from Stein's account
»that the Kuen-luen Muztagh, the ascent of which by Johnson does not appear to
have been disputed, is the culminating point of a range containing six measured
peaks of over 23,000 ft.» He concludes: »Until the Kuen-Luen Muztagh is remeasured

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