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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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had since been spreading up the valley. Enormous masses
of rock and detritus had been pushed by the impetus of the
landslips up the steep spur flanking the mouth of the Shedau
valley. The gigantic dam thus formed seemed even then,
four years after the great landslide, to rise some 1200 feet
above the level of the new lake. Some portion of the upper-
most slopes on the scarred mountain-side above the barrage
seemed still on the move, and stone avalanches descending
from it accounted for the clouds of dust which are seen in
the photograph (Fig. 135).
At the foot of the above spur I found a small Russian
party under Professor J. Preobrazhenski just arrived from
the side of the Alichur Pamir for a survey of the great bar-
rage. The Russian scientists had arrived by skin raft from
the southern extension of the lake, which they reached
across the Langar pass, the same I wished to make for.
They gave me a very kindly welcome, but were confident
that my intended passage along the precipitous slopes above
that inlet would prove impracticable. As, however, the
plucky Roshani headmen with us were prepared to make
the attempt, the spur was ascended to a height of about
13,200 feet and camp pitched near a small spring.
When next morning a steep descent had brought us
down to the dazzling green waters of the Yerkh inlet, I
realized the difficulties of further progress along the pre-
cipitous rock slopes thrown down by the earthquake and
across dangerous debris shoots, in many places still liable
to move. Fortunately our Roshanis were all excellent crags-
men, as befits people bred in such mountains as theirs, and
quite experts in building rafaks or ledges of brushwood and
stones along otherwise impassable precipices. It was fully
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