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0602 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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in the Kara-korums and opening a new era of exploration. In the history of this
exploration his name belongs to the most famous.

July 11th, Conway set out on his march over the Hispar Glacier, starting
from a height of 10,320 feet. From its frontal moraine the glacier had retired one
mile comparatively recently. »Such a small oscillation is of no importance, so that
practically the Hispar Glacier may be considered to have been stationary during the
historic period, for the cultivated Hispar fan has been deposited since the main retreat
of the ice.»¹

At his first camp Conway was at a height of 11,770 feet. The range opposite,
at the northern side, culminated in a peak upwards of 24,000 feet. Next day he
passed several tributary glaciers and reached a height of 13,070 feet. July 13th he
crossed the mouth of the Makorum Glacier, over which there is an easy col to Chogo
Lungma. On the northern side is the Churi Glacier which had swollen greatly,
although its neighbour, Lak, had shrunk. He explains this from some heavy snowfall
having caused a strong development of the Churi, whereas the same effect was not
yet noticeable on the Lak, which is much longer.

It had long been known that there was a road over the mountains between Skardo
and Nagyr (Nagar). But it had been abandoned for some time. In September 1861
GODWIN-AUSTEN tried to find this Nushik-la road. Major CUNNINGHAM made a similar
attempt. Both started from the Shigar valley, ascended to Arundo at the foot of the
Chogo Lumba and by the Kero Lumba Glacier went to Nushik-la. Neither of the
two Englishmen went down on the northern side to the Haigutum, but returned south.
That's why Conway sent BRUCE up from Hopar, west of Hispar, to try from the north.
June 30th Bruce arrived at Haigutum. July 3rd he started for the pass. He was told
nobody had been over it for 20 years. With its 16,800 feet it proved to be a difficult
pass, but Bruce was successful. The glacier had changed its appearance very much
since Godwin-Austen's time.

However, July 15th Conway continued up the Hispar. Nushik-la could be seen
in the distance and looked difficult. Opposite the Kanibasar Glacier he describes
the landscape thus:

a series of snowy peaks, belonging to a range yet further to the north, peeping
over a portion of the ridge that bounds the snowfields in that direction. Thus it is in
this country — northwards the high mountains seem to have no end. Ridge behind ridge,
crest behind crest, glacier behind glacier, they stretch away in monotonous parallellism,
through regions uninhabited and even unvisited by man.

The Kanibasar Glacier has a great double »Firnmulde», shut in by grand
peaks. The right side of the Hispar Glacier was much covered with gravel. The
height of the camp was 14,110 feet. July 16th he continued on clean ice in the