. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. lacier did not terminate in a cascade of seracs. This pass seemed,in fact, to be the only way of exit from the Godwin Austen basin thatdid not present serious obstacles. To the south the scene is dominated by a group of splendidmountains, among which are the eastern peaks of the Gasherbrums I(Hidden Peak), II and III. From this last a great steep spur runs outnorthward, just indicated upon our map. This spur, taken togetherwith the eastern walls of Broad Peak, encl
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. lacier did not terminate in a cascade of seracs. This pass seemed,in fact, to be the only way of exit from the Godwin Austen basin thatdid not present serious obstacles. To the south the scene is dominated by a group of splendidmountains, among which are the eastern peaks of the Gasherbrums I(Hidden Peak), II and III. From this last a great steep spur runs outnorthward, just indicated upon our map. This spur, taken togetherwith the eastern walls of Broad Peak, encloses a wide valley filled with (9221) R 3 262 Chapter W. a broad glacier bare of moraine. At the foot of the col this glacierbends to the north-east to mingle with another and even larger one,covered with moraine, which comes down east of the great ridge ofGasherbrum III just mentioned, and seems to flow north-east, gatheringup several affluents from among the spurs of tlie Gasherbrums, on itscourse toward a distant chain of lofty mountains laden with ice andsnow. Three peaks of this chain, marked X, Y and Z on the panorama,. STAIRCASE PEAK AND THE END OK THE NOKTH?EASTERN SIUR OF K. were distinguished by the Duke from Staircase Peak, as I shall describeshortly. Almost in the centre of the picture, behind all the successionof ranges, rises a peak of evidently exceptional height. Sella took thehorizontal angle of it with the surveying compass. From the situation,shape and appearance of this peak, there can be no reasonable doubtthat it is Teram Kangri, the mountain discovered and measured byDr. LongstafE from the upper Siachen glacier on June 17th, only fivedays before Sella photographed it.^ I will now resume the narrative from June 14th, on which day theDuke had sent ahead Sella, Negrotto and myself to set up a light campat Windy Gap. Lorenzo Petigax, Emilio Brocherel and twelve coolies T. G. LoNGSTAFF, Uhicitr Exploration in the Eastern Karakoram. Geog. Jour. 35, 1910,p. 631.
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