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0109 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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Luns, and thus going direct to Khotan. Storms and snow
compelled us to turn back and make a détour of a hun-
dred miles to the west, to the easier and lower pass of
Sanju, 16,700 feet high.

On the way to Lake Pangong, I went up the Indus valley
a day's journey from Leh, and crossed on foot to the north,
over the pass of Chang La in the main range, with my
cheerful Ladakhi coolies. Near Durgukh, at the north-
ern base of the pass, I left the main road, which we later
followed on our way to Turkestan, and turned to the east
up the valley which carried the drainage of Lake Pangong
before that sheet of water contracted to its present size and
ceased to overflow. At Durgukh, an official order from
Leh enabled me to hire ponies for the ride of thirty miles
to the lake. They were shaggy, unkempt little animals,
and were cared for by two equally unkempt Ladakhi
youths, quiet, cheerful, and willing. I could not make my
horse hurry at first, for when I said, "Clck," he stopped as
though shot, nearly throwing me over his head. It was
only when I learned to say, "Choo! choo!" that I could
persuade him to hasten a little. Downstream from Dur-
gukh the valley turns to the north, and enters a narrow
V-shaped gorge, almost impassable, as we found later.
Upstream, however, we encountered very easy traveling,
for the valley has been glaciated, and its broad U-shaped
trough forms an easy approach to Pangong.

The lake is a sparkling sheet of the clearest, deepest
blue, shading delicately to purple in the shadows, and to
pure pearly green in the shallow rim near shore. Dark
rugged mountains spring steeply one or two thousand feet