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0716 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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found ourselves at the debouchure of a small stream which
Pasa called Mandar-kol.
We camped there for the night, and the main valley
farther up making a great bend and becoming quite
impassable, we had to ascend next day to the top of a
high spur eastwards. The pass was about 17,000 feet in
height, and once again fortune was kind; for Pasa's track
proved to pass quite close to a well-isolated peak making
an ideal survey station. So, on August 28th, leaving camp
in a small moss-covered ravine at the foot of an old glacier
(Fig. 323), we climbed the peak and were rewarded by a
magnificent panorama on the top of the highest rock
pinnacle. Triangulation subsequently showed its exact
height as 18,612 feet. For an hour or two heavy clouds
were drifting over the snowy range south; but they lifted
about mid-day and a truly grand view was then revealed
of the latter.
A huge massif, covered with a continuous mantle of ice
and snow, feeding the easternmost sources of the Yurung-
kash, came now fully in view to the south-east. But the
aspect of the range with its many fine glaciers to the
south and south-west of us was almost as imposing, and
the distance less (Fig. 324). I did my best to record by
camera and copious notes the many interesting orographical
features which presented themselves from this glorious
station above Tar-kol; but this is not the place to discuss
them. Only one striking observation may be mentioned.
Whereas on the north slopes of the main range before us
the snow-line descended to approximately 17,500 feet, on
the slopes of the great spur behind us which faced south
it lay certainly as high as 19,500 feet.
Our march of August 29th took us over a succession of
somewhat lower side spurs, on the slopes of which traces
of wild yaks were abundant, and brought us by nightfall
into the little valley of Tüge-tash. There, at an elevation
of about 15,000 feet, we spent a miserable night in snow
and rain, but next morning had the satisfaction of descend-
ing at last to the main Yurung-kash Valley where Pasa
declared it to become practicable for further progress.
Fantastically eroded rock-faces, composed of shiny slate,