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0550 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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Heavy clouds had hung over the mountains that day and
hidden from view the great ice-clad peaks between the
Sel-dara and Tanimaz headwaters which I had seen from
the other side on my way south from the Alai. The next
day brought heavy rain with fresh snow on the mountains,
and obliged me to halt at Sitargh village. The pass named
after it was to take us across into Khingab, the head portion
of the large hill tract known as Wakhia-bala. The local head-
men were apprehensive of risks in attempting the pass under
such conditions, but were intelligent enough to accept from
me a written statement that they were not to be held respon-
sible if anything went wrong. Fortunately the sky cleared
in time to permit us to start for the pass long before day-
break.

The ascent was steep but at first easy, lying over slopes
clothed with alpine vegetation. Then the climb led over
large snow-covered moraines past a steep glacier, until after
seven hours from the start the narrow ridge forming the pass
was reached at an elevation of about 14,600 feet. The view
from the pass was limited to the head of the large glacier
over and past which the descent leads. But when we had
made our way over the glacier for about a mile and a half,
zigzagging between many long crevasses, a magnificent
panorama opened over the huge ice-stream and side glaciers
of great size which join in from the range to the south
(Fig. 141). It was not until after a total march of some ten
miles from the pass, over trying slopes of lateral moraines,
that the snout, some 150 feet high, of the united ice-stream
was reached. Three miles lower down we were glad to gain
a camping-place for the night on a small grassy plateau.

On October 4 an easy march brought us to Pashmghar,