In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . DARMA SHOKAS AND TIBETANS streams meet. It receives, on its precipitous descent,many small snow-fed tributaries, those from the Katzsnow-fields and the Nui glacier being the most way lies in a tortuous channel amid rocks and ra-vines, first tending towards the southeast, then due south,and last southwest down to the point where it is joined ,40 GLACIERS by the Lissar, coming from the northwest along a linealmost parallel on the opposite watershed of the range. Tyang, Sipu (11,400 feet), and Marcha {10,890 feet),are the t


In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . DARMA SHOKAS AND TIBETANS streams meet. It receives, on its precipitous descent,many small snow-fed tributaries, those from the Katzsnow-fields and the Nui glacier being the most way lies in a tortuous channel amid rocks and ra-vines, first tending towards the southeast, then due south,and last southwest down to the point where it is joined ,40 GLACIERS by the Lissar, coming from the northwest along a linealmost parallel on the opposite watershed of the range. Tyang, Sipu (11,400 feet), and Marcha {10,890 feet),are the three most important Shoka villages on theLissar. From Marcha. there is a track connecting the valleysof the Lissar and Gori. You ascend the high mountainrange west of the Lissar by skirting the northern edgeof the Nipchung Kang glacier and keeping south of theKharsa glacier, and, on a route that is unpopular on ac-count of its constant difficulties and perils, you pass, asyou descend in a westerly direction, the Tertcha of the Shun Kalpa gla


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