. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. ity. Yet there are other indications which seem to show thatthey have some degree of acquaintance with these ice-bound early as 1892, at the time of Conways visit, a Balti of Askoley madeon the sand a rough sketch of the district in order to show Eckensteinthe position of the Mustagh passes, the Baltoro, the Mustagh Tower,Masherbrum, Gasherbnim and • From here Godw-in Austen climbed part way up one of the spurs of the southern chain ofthe Baltoro
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. ity. Yet there are other indications which seem to show thatthey have some degree of acquaintance with these ice-bound early as 1892, at the time of Conways visit, a Balti of Askoley madeon the sand a rough sketch of the district in order to show Eckensteinthe position of the Mustagh passes, the Baltoro, the Mustagh Tower,Masherbrum, Gasherbnim and • From here Godw-in Austen climbed part way up one of the spurs of the southern chain ofthe Baltoro in order to get a view of K. - See the letter of Sm W. M. Conway, in Proc. Boy. Geog. Soc. 14, 1892, p. 857. 208 Chapter XII. From Rdokass on we obsen^ecl, as did our predecessors, some higherhummocks or pointed cones far too hirge and broad-based to beidentified with the pedestals of fallen glacier tables. Little by littleas we went up these strange formations became more numerous, andincreased in height up to from 30 to 70 feet or more. They are in shapeeither cones with an oval base or flattened pyramids, whose greatest. ICE PYRAJIID ON THE BALTOBO. diameter runs parallel to the direction of the valley. They usuallyterminate in a sharp point. On the right side of the glacier, to whichwe had now crossed, we found them large and imposing and arrangedin rows running in the direction of the moraine. As you go fartherdown they get farther apart, but remain between the same morainelines. The glacier marked with these snow-white pinnacles over adark background of moraine presents an odd appearance—like a grave-yard with rows of tombstones, or a river dotted with fleets of whitelateen sails. From Rdokass to the Concordia Aiupliitlieatre. 20j The first observer to call attention to these ice pyramids was God\vinAusten, whom nothing noteworthy escaped. Giiillarmod supposes themto be seracs fallen from overhanging side glaciers, and reduced to thisshape by melting. Ferber notes the
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