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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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I took a pony to ride myself whenever it was possible to
do so.
On September 12 we made our start. The first march
was easy enough, leading up the broad pebbly bed of the
Oprang River. Up one of the gorges to the south we caught a
magnificent view of the great peak K.2, twenty-eight thousand
two hundred and seventy-eight feet high, and we halted for
the night at a spot from which a view both of K.2 and of the
Gusherbrum peaks, four of which are over twenty-six thousand
feet, were visible. On the following day our difficulties really
began. The first was the great glacier which we had seen
from the Aghil Pass; it protruded right across the valley of
the Oprang River, nearly touching the cliffs on the right bank;
but fortunately the river had kept a way for itself, by continu-
ally washing away the ice at the end of the glacier, and so by
taking our ponies through the water, which was filled with
blocks of ice, we were able to get round the end of the glacier,
a great wall of ice of one hundred and fifty to two hundred
feet high. This glacier runs down from the Gusherbrum
Mountains, and is about one and a half mile broad at the end;
the central portion is a mass of pure ice-peaks, and the view
looking up it is very fine, with the sea of ice beneath, and the
Gusherbrum in the distance towering up to a height of over
twenty-six thousand feet.
The passage round the end of the glacier was not unattended
with danger, for the stream was swift and strong; and on my
own pony I had to reconnoitre very carefully for points where
it was shallow enough to cross, while there was also some fear
of fragments from the great ice-wall falling down on the top
of us when we were passing along close under the cliffs of ice
which formed the end of the glacier. After getting round this
obstacle, we entered a gravel plain some three-quarters of a
mile broad, and were then encountered by another glacier
running across the valley of the Oprang River. This proved
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