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0265 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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Mustagh, which cross the range. One, to the
east, that is to our left as we were ascending
the glacier, is known as the Old Mustagh Pass,
and was in use in former days, till the advance
of ice upon it made it so difficult that a new
one was sought for, and what is known as the
New Mustagh Pass, some ten miles farther
west along the range, had been discovered. It
was over this latter pass that the guides hoped
to conduct our party. They said that even
ponies had in former times been taken across
it by means of ropes and by making rough
bridges across the crevasses. No European
had crossed either of them, but Colonel Godwin-
Austen, in 1862, reached the southern foot of
the new pass in the course of his survey of
Baltistan. This New Mustagh Pass seemed
the more promising of the two, and I therefore
decided upon sending two men on the following
morning to reconnoitre it and report upon its
practicability.

At the first streak of daylight the recon-
noiterers set out, and the remainder of us after-
wards followed with the ponies along the route
which we had explored on the previous day.
We took the ponies up the glacier without any