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0641	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0641

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

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In the autumn the natives take their goats up the valley one march beyond
the snout of the glacier.

Beyond that, they said natives had penetrated two more marches, and that there was
a connection with the Remo glacier, at the head of the Shayok. This Remo has yet to
be explored.

Then they turned up the Saser to examine the glacier Murgisthang, or rather
Monstong, a long straight glacier leading due north. There were no signs of any
recent retreat. The glacier had extensive transverse ice streams pouring in on each
side, those on the east coming from precipitous splintered peaks, palæozoic and gneiss;
those on the west flowing down from wide snow-fields, leading back to a range of
no great height, perhaps 21,000 feet, the water-parting of the Upper Nubra.

In 2 miles' distance he saw K 32 24,600 feet high. The névé basin was at a height
of 18,000 feet. The great peak rises with a sheer cliff of 4,000 feet of pale-grey, pink
granite. To the N. E. and N. W. high peaks were seen, the latter about 23,000 feet.
From another ridge in the neighbourhood he again had a superb view to K 32. »An
hour's scramble would have put us on its sharp steep western arrête. To the north we
overlooked the col and saw a great glacier stretching far away, apparently flowing north
and then east to join the Remo glacier. Beyond this were many serrated peaks along
the line of the Karakorum watershed, which we estimated by the eye as from 22,000 to
23,000 feet. One rather higher mountain stood out to the north-west; but shining in the
far distance we saw some great giants which I felt sure must be Gasherbrum and Bride
Peak, 65 miles away.

When Neve the following year returned from the Siachen Glacier he looked
up the photographs taken from the Murgisthang ridge and identified Teram Kangri,
which he had seen to the N. W.

A terra incognita stretched north to the Aghil Mountains, and N. E. to the
source of the Yarkand River, explored by HAYWARD.

They¹ went up to Kharmang Kuru and Khapallu. Their plan was to cross
the Saltoro Pass. The natives did not know anything about such a pass. »They
were unwilling to commit themselves to saying that the mountains either at the head
of the Kondus or the Bilaphond were impassable, but said that in the days of
their forefathers men went that way to Yarkand and also to Nubra.»

They went 8 miles upstream from Khapallu where the whole valley seemed
to have been filled with ice, and where in post-glacial times an immense amount of
re-excavation has been done. They also found evidence of former lakes, 1,000 feet
above the present river level. At Mandi and Palit extensive fragments of old lateral
moraines were clinging to both sides of the valley, 1,000 feet above the river.
Dr. Neve is of the opinion that here, as in many of the higher Himalayan and

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