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Route No. 107.

From KIDARNATH (Gárhvál) to GANGÓTRI (Gárhvál).

Capt. T. Skinner, in his "Excursion in India",
Vol. II., pp. 60, 61, alludes to the existence of a
pass which would lead directly from Kídarnath
to Gangótri in about four marches.

In September 1855, when I happened to be
at Kídarnath, I made frequent inquiries about
this route, about which, however, no one knew
the least. Nevertheless, as I found many of my
people most willing to accompany me, I made an
attempt to discover the pass.

From Kídarnath (11,794 ft.) I ascended in two
marches the Kídarnath glacier to a height of
15,449 ft., which we found then so much crevassed
as to render any further progress quite impossible.
If the pass exists at all it must be situated E. of
the Sargoróin peak. My brother Adolphe, who, at
the time when I made my unsuccessful attempt, was
near Gangótri, made also frequent inquiries about
this route independent of my own, the result of which
tended to prove that no passage exists. The oldest
Bráhmans at Gangótri and Múkba did not remem-
ber ever to have seen any one who was said to
have made this direct route, and they believed
that no one had ever done so. The rumour current
about the possibility of this route arose, as they
thought, from the circumstance that efforts had
been repeatedly made to discover the passage —
but always without success.

The discovery of this pass, so earnestly de-
sired on account of its shortness, would be one
of the finest feats a Himálayan traveller could
achieve.

The route, now generally taken from Kídarnath
to Gangótri is a very long and circuitous one,
viz. by Tríjugi Naráin, Bhéti, Baráhát, Ráital,
Súkhi, and Múkba (see Routes Nos. 232; 24, 15,
17, 172, 210, and 144).

Another road, somewhat shorter, is the follow-
ing, but it is, except in a few places, impassable

for horses: by Trijugi Naráin, Mángu, Sálung,
Súkhi, and Múkba (see Routes Nos. 232, 62, 135,
181, 210, and 144).

Geographical co-ordinates:

Kídarnath: 30 45; 79 4; 11,794 ft.
Gangótri: 31 0; 78 56; 10,319 ,,

Route
from KIDARNATH to MÁSSÚRI, see
MÁSSÚRI to KIDARNATH.

Route
from KIDARNATH to NAINÍTÁL, see
NAINÍTÁL to KIDARNATH.

Route
from KIDARNATH to ÓKIMATH,
see No. 161.

Route
from KIDARNATH to TRÍJUGI NARÁIN,
see No. 232.

Route No. 108.

From KÍLIAN (Turkistán) to KÁRGALIK (Turkistán).

A principal route, passable for horses, and even
for camels. Road good and almost level.

Kílian, a large town.

Hássan Bágra, on a river which flows past
the villages Oitokráb and Kósh, and loses it-
self in the sand of the desert of Góbi.