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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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the great Masher Brum peak, which stands up
over twenty-five thousand feet high just across
the glacier. Then, turning to our left in the
opposite direction to Askoli, we could see far
away up this, the largest mountain glacier in
the world, other peaks of even greater height,
rising like snowy spires in the distance. Four
peaks over twenty-six thousand feet, stand out
at the head of the Baltoro glacier, and away to
our left, though hidden from us, was the peak
K.2, which I had seen from the northern side
of the Mustagh Pass. Five years afterwards,
Sir William Conway's party explored the entire
length of the glacier, and ascended a peak
twenty-three thousand feet in height at its
head; but, fascinating though it would have
been to have wandered among these mountain
giants, in a region unsurpassed for sublimity
and grandeur by any in the world, I could only
now think of reaching an inhabited spot again
as rapidly as possible.
We turned to the right, then down the
glacier, keeping along the moraine close to the
mountain-side. This and the two following
were days of agony to me, for my native boots
were now in places worn through till the bare
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