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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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to this point the Mustagh Range is lofty and rugged in the
extreme. Everywhere it is covered with snow and ice, and
peaks of great height rise along it. There are within the neigh-
bourhood of the Shimshal Pass many of these peaks, twenty-
three and twenty-four thousand feet in height. But here it
suddenly drops down to fifteen thousand feet, and the summits
on the northern side of the pass, though still lofty, are smooth
and rounded instead of sharp and ragged. The explanation
that suggests itself to me is that the mountains on the south
side of the pass are of more recent upheaval than those on the
north, that the latter have been longer exposed to the wearing
action of the snow and ice, and that consequently peaks which
may formerly have been as lofty and rugged as those still
standing to the south have now become worn and smoothed
down. And though the watershed of the Mustagh Range runs
across the pass and away in a northerly direction through the
crests of these rounded mountains, I think that it would not
be right to call this the main axis, for that, as it seems to me,
runs away in a more westerly direction from the south side
of the Shimshal Pass, and passes along a few miles above
Hunza. This line passes through a series of peaks, more than
one of which are over twenty-five thousand feet in height, and
looked at either on the spot or on the map this appears to be
the true axis of the range, while the watershed to the north
seems merely a subsidiary offshoot.
Descending by a steep zigzag from the Shimshal Pass, we
encamped near a second collection of shepherds' huts, to which
the Hunza men come in the summer with their flocks. There
were patches of good grass both here and on the flat surface
of the pass, but no trees, and only low dwarf bushes. On the
next morning, leaving my party behind here, I went on with
a few men to examine the country a little further in the
direction of Hunza, though it was my intention to return over
the Shimshal Pass, and go up on to the Pamirs, before finally
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