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0721 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 / Page 721 (Color Image)

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[Photo] 322 VIEW DOWN THE YURUNG-KASH RIVER GORGE FROM DEBOUCHURE OF HASIB CHAP.
[Photo] 323 VIEW TOWARDS MAIN KUN-LUN RANGE, SOUTH OF YURUNG-KASH RIVER, FROM CAMP BELOW TAR-KOL PASS. The elevation of this camp was circ. 16,000 feet.

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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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the donkeys safely across the thirty yard
aster, three to four feet in depth. Mo
ugh carried by the men, got throu
amenus luckily escaping.
ak in the gusts of driving snow had nea
all-benumbed men and animals to re
ile, when we had to start scaling a ste
steep rock promontory which rose
in the angle between the two valley
derstood how the donkeys with their l
were, managed to scramble up here a
we found ourselves at the top of a na
aling down to the main river bran
he forty-five degrees (Fig. 326). The s
the slaty rock, which in spite of the slo
laned descent for us men, were too ste
too sharp for the animals. So they h
down in the débris-filled centre of
the rock fragments, ever giving way u
ew downs in small avalanches. Seve
ys lost their balance and tumbled do
it seemed a miracle that none of th
jured.
earest we had still most difficult groun
our from here upwards rolled its toss
a light greenish tint, through a corri
than sixty to eighty yards at the bot
the right bank the rock-walls were p
precipitous cliffs and dange
the left shingle had to be crossed altern
ould be made out here and there was
wild yaks, which, in fact, were almo
of-game hunters like Pasa, were almo
"résumé" we had followed since Mado
s than a foot wide, needed careful ther
and along difficult rock-faces, before
onkeys could pass. The precipitous s
the rock fragments, which looked as if
a wall-like spur above by some earli
are almost as risky. It took us fu