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0656 Southern Tibet : vol.7
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CHAPTER LIII.

THE EXPEDITION OF DR. AND MRS. WORKMAN 1911—1912.

During the summers of 1898, 1899, 1902, 1903, 1906 and 1908, the WORK-
MANS had travelled and surveyed in the High Kara-korum. To the store of know-
ledge which they, with indefatigable zeal and endurance, had collected, they added
new and very important explorations in the summers of 1911 and 1912. The ex-
periences of the latter period are set forth in a book, the appearance of which was
delayed by the war until 1917.¹

The expedition of 1912 was the more important of the two. Even the first
news gave us an idea of its results. The Alpine Journal told us that Dr. and Mrs.
WORKMAN in July 1912 ascended four snow cols at the two sources of the Siachen
Glacier, from 19,500 to 21,000 feet high.

On two of these ascents Mrs. Bullock Workman established the relation of the North-
East Karakoram water-parting with Kashgar; on the two others she discovered two passes
to the large unknown Kondus glaciers.

From the N. E. Siachen col a pass to Kashgar was found. Beyond the east Siachen
boundary a new group of high peaks was discovered on the Kashgar side, one probably
over 25,000 feet high. The Siachen could now be said to be the most thoroughly examined
of all Himalaya glaciers.²

It cannot be said to improve the orographical classification to count the Siachen
amongst the Himalayan Glaciers. The giant glaciers belong exclusively to the Kara-
korum System. The same journey correctly points out that the region between the
Siachen and the Kara-korum Pass is still unknown.

In 1911 the Workmans crossed the Saltoro River to Kapalu, from where they
went up the Saltoro valley. It was their plan now to explore the region between
the Saltoro valley and the Baltoro Glacier, and extending westward from the Siachen