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0601 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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CHAPTER XLVII.

CONWAY.

Only two travellers had visited the regions to which Sir Martin Conway
carried his exploration, namely Colonel Godwin-Austen and Captain Younghus-
band. In the service of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India Godwin-Austen
visited the Kara-korum Mountains in 1860—61. He had crossed the Skoro-la, ascended
the Baltoro Glacier and the Punmah Glacier to one of the Mus-tagh Passes. He had
mounted five miles along the east bank of the Biafo from its snout, descended the
Braldo River, went up the Basha valley, reached Nushik-la from the south, returned
to Arundo, Shigar and Skardo. Younghusband in 1887 re-opened the disused Mus-
tagh Pass, which gives access from the north to the basin of the Baltoro by way of
the Piale tributary.

In 1892 Sir Martin Conway started for our regions, accompanied by
M. McCormick, M. Zurbriggen, M. Roudeboush and Lieutenant C. G. Bruce.
In all he spent 84 days on snow and glacier, and explored in their whole length
the three longest known glaciers in the world outside the polar regions. A comparison
between Conway's map and the corresponding sheets of the Indian Atlas will show
how much new ground he covered.¹

After having explored the Samayar, Barpu and Shallihuru Glaciers he began
the most important part of his work, from Hispar toward the east, and accomplished
a glacial journey which for ever will be reckoned amongst the classical performances
in Asia, — a journey the results of which have hardly since been surpassed. Every
one of Conway's successors in this field have had to follow his maps and add detail
to them. But Conway had no other map than the one compiled from Godwin-Austen's
excellent observations, which, however, were very much misunderstood in the drafting
room. From a glaciological point of view Conway was breaking up untrodden ground