. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. of the main peak. The whole cone is covered with ice, above whiclijust show the low, little accentuated rocky ridges converging to thetop. The wall, at a very steep angle of inclination, is live ice for7,000 feet up, and crowned by seracs. It is absolutely north-east buttress detaches itself from the broad curving shoulder,also entirely ice-covered, and takes up a good share of the right sideof the valley, wliich is rugged with teeth and rjendarmes
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. of the main peak. The whole cone is covered with ice, above whiclijust show the low, little accentuated rocky ridges converging to thetop. The wall, at a very steep angle of inclination, is live ice for7,000 feet up, and crowned by seracs. It is absolutely north-east buttress detaches itself from the broad curving shoulder,also entirely ice-covered, and takes up a good share of the right sideof the valley, wliich is rugged with teeth and rjendarmes and surmountedby some goodly peaks, and ends more than two and a half milesfrom K^, in the snowy dome which Guillarmod and Wessely attemptedto climb from the Godwin Austen. At no point of the entire distanceis there a place where one could gain the ridge directly from the farthest height, at the head of the valley, is Staircase Peak(24,078 feet), of which we see the south-western face, a rocky vertical K-, as seen from the east, from the rocks above Car VI 1/ (iriij;J jvadi; i»j<ri vni fium aril nu- -. Tlie Uj)i)er Godwin Austen Glacier. •2i)9 triangle nearly 4,000 feet high. Between it and the ridge that runstoward it from K- is another glacial basin, which empties by a narrowmouth into the Godwin Austen ; it is like the basin below Broad Peak,Ijut much smaller. From Staircase Peak to Windy Gap a rib of icedescends by a series of steps or leaps, its side traversed by glaciers andfurrowed by deep channels ; and this rib, together with Windy Gapitself, terminates the valley of the Godwin Austen. From our campwe can see neither the saddle nor the left wall of the valley. 20,981. 22,306.
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