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0615 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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CHAPTER XLIX.

MR. AND MRS. WORKMAN.

Of great importance for the knowledge of this world of icy mountains are the
several journeys undertaken by Dr. HUNTER WORKMAN and Mrs. BULLOCK WORKMAN.
In 1898 and 1899 they visited parts of the High Kara-korum which had been
explored by Sir MARTIN CONWAY, and they had made some new ascents. Their
experiences were published in different Journals, amongst others in the Annuaire du
Club Alpin Français, 27e Année, 1900, Paris 1901, p. 320, under the title Dans
les neiges du Baltistan, accompanied by a little map of the route and of the whole
length of the Biafo Glacier. In 1902 and 1903 they explored the unknown upper
portions of the Chogo Lungma, Hoh Lumba, Sos Bon and Alchori Glaciers.¹ Of
the Dras and Indus valleys Dr. Workman says:
Not only near the present level of the rivers, but at all elevations, even to the
mountain-tops several thousand feet above, the granite rocks are smoothed, rounded, eroded
in every conceivable manner and dented with pot-holes, showing that at some distant
period they were subjected to the action of moving water carrying stones.
From Skardo they went up the Shigar and Basha Rivers to Arundo near the
snout of the Chogo Lungma Glacier. South of Arundo the Tippur Glacier »formerly
reached considerably farther down the valley than now». The Chogo Lungma is
9,500 feet high at Arundo, 30 miles long, one mile broad at the lower end, two
miles at the upper. The lowest part of the glacier, for 9 miles, was full of detritus,
but no end-moraine was accumulated. A good-sized river flows out from under it
and joins the river from the Kero Lungma Glacier to the north.
Of interest are the comparisons they made with GODWIN-AUSTEN'S observations
in 1862. Since then the Chogo Lungma had dwindled greatly. Godwin-Austen found
the ice encroaching on the Arundo terrace. »Now it nowhere touches it, and has
receded to a point 1184 feet west of the village.... A quarter of a mile above the
end the side of the snout has receded more than 200 feet from the high right