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0273 Among the Celestials : vol.1
Among the Celestials : vol.1 / Page 273 (Color Image)

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[Figure] Page 228 CROSSING AN ICE-SLOPE ON THE MUSTAGH PASS

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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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at, however, saved our party wa
ng my tongue. I kept quite silent
l over the pass, and waited to hear
en had to say about it. They mea
looking at me, and imagining tha
shman never went back from an
he had once started on, took it a
of course that, as I gave no order t
I necessarily meant to go on. So t
bout their preparations for the las
had brought an ordinary pickaxe w
Wali went on ahead with this, whi
of us followed one by one behind hi
ng on to a rope tied round Wali's wa
rt him in case he slipped while bro
across an ice-slope leading to a r
ce which seemed to afford its
le means of descending the pass.
was of hard ice, very steep, and t
r or so below the line we took exhi
, which again terminated many hun
beneath in the head of a glacier a
the pass. Wali with his pickaxe h
step by step across the ice-slope, ea
the rocky cliff by which we shall
end on to the glacier below.