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0878	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0878

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

a point of great geographical importance, upon the discovery of which this Society
should most sincerely congratulate Dr. DE FILIPPI.» ¹

After having climbed to the watershed saddle of the tributary glacier, being
5884 m. high, DE FILIPPI returned and completed the exploration of the main branch
of the Remo Glacier. One of its saddles leads to the Siachen Glacier, another, to
the north, marks the wathershed. With great energy and admirable pluck the region
was explored in many directions in spite of very severe weather and heavy snowfalls
which hindered the expedition in its work. DE FILIPPI tells us that even the ordinary
caravan road across the Kara-korum Pass which nearly always is open, now for some
days had been encumbered with snow. »It may therefore be assumed that the summer
of 1914 was an exceptionally unlucky season.» It would be of great interest to
know whether this heavy precipitation during the winter of 1913—1914 has had
any consequences as regards the hydrography of the Manasarovar—Rakas-tal—Satlej
system. From the reports of the reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest in 1921
one also gets the impression that in the Eastern Himalaya as well, though several
years later, the precipitation has been heavier than usual.

August 20 the Kara-korum Pass was crossed. Its height was found to be
5800 m.² Again the expedition was split into two parties. DE FILIPPI took the
way of the Suget-davan, 5400 m.³, to Suget-karaul in the Kara-kash valley, after
which Kirghiz-jangal in the Yarkand-darya valley was reached. It is a pity that his
plan of exploring the Oprang valley, which previously had been visited only by
YOUNGHUSBAND⁴ and GROMBTCHEVSKIY⁵, had to be abandoned. It is also a pity
that his intention to explore the Aghil Range⁶ could not be carried out by reason
of the late season. Again YOUNGHUSBAND is right when he says: »The source of
the Oprang River and its upper basin still remain to be explored, and it is one of
the most interesting fields of exploration still remaining in the Himalayas».⁷ Still the
Western tributaries of the Yarkand-darya, contrary to the surmises of DE FILIPPI,
were not found to rise on the northern slopes of the Kara-korum, but from a snow-
bound chain to the north of it, which was supposed to separate the basin of the

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