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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
| 南チベット : vol.7 |
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very rarified, and breathing becomes difficult.» In the spring there are heavy snow
falls often obliging caravans to return. The sootuk often kills the horses. »From
the Kurra Koorum to the Akhtab mountains a journey of three days, there is no
water on the road. . . . . the road traverses a pass through the Akhtab mountains,
through which there are two roads, the Kullian and the Kookraï . . . . It takes some
six or seven days to get through the Kullian, after which four days' march brings
you to Kurgulluk . . . .»¹
From this short report one could hardly suspect the existence of another great
mountain system north of the one in which the Kara-korum Pass is situated. Ahmed
Shah's Ekdan route is obviously the Kumdan one which he found blocked up by
snow, i. e. glacier ice, by which a lake was formed above the glacier. So it remained
from 1818 to 1840.
He crossed the very glacier, as seems from his description of the ice, and the
passage took him half a day. Thus the road must have been rather difficult unless
the Chong Kumdan is also included. In 1840 the road seems to have been cleared.
He especially says that »this is the route almost always now followed by the cara-
vans», from which it appears as if the road was passable from 1840 until the
winter 1852—1853. But as Ahmed Shah had to cross the glacier snout, this must
have, during the last years of the said period, advanced to the opposite mountain
wall and again closed the valley.
His description would also suit the state of things which I found in 1902,
exactly 50 years later.² The snout then did not reach the mountain foot, but the
great blocks of ice fallen by melting from the snout totally filled up the intermediate
space. But to judge from his description, and as he found large rocks (great blocks)
and stones on the top of the snow (on the glacier), it seems more likely, that the
road in 1852—53 really had to cross the very end of the glacier, which took half
a day to accomplish. The fact that the road was made open in 1840 does not
prove that the action of the glacier was diminished, only that the accumulated lake
was then heavy enough to break away the snout. As soon as the passage had
been cleared the glacier began to advance again, until it finally, in 1852—1853
had blocked the road.
In an article by Lieut. H. G. Raverty Notes on Kokán, Kashgár, Yárkand,
and other places in Central Asia,³ we find the following mention of the Kara-
korum road:
There are two routes from Kashmir to Yárkand and Kokán. The most direct one
is by way of Iskárdoh and along the banks of the Shighun river, and over the Mus-ták
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