. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. arkatmosphere hid the upper valley from our view. Luckily the air wascalm; wind would have been extremely obnoxious in this crotch ofthe valleys where we had raised our tents. The Punmah valley, which ran up northward in our rear, leads toa vast and complicated glacier system, across which the peoples on eitherside of the Karakoram contrived to find a route by a pass of some19,000 feet, known as the New Mustagh, because it was intended totake the place of the old p
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. arkatmosphere hid the upper valley from our view. Luckily the air wascalm; wind would have been extremely obnoxious in this crotch ofthe valleys where we had raised our tents. The Punmah valley, which ran up northward in our rear, leads toa vast and complicated glacier system, across which the peoples on eitherside of the Karakoram contrived to find a route by a pass of some19,000 feet, known as the New Mustagh, because it was intended totake the place of the old pass of the same name situated in the northern From Askolev to IMokass. 169 range of the Baltoro when that became impassable owing to changesin the glaciers. Now, however, the New Mustagh has also been givenup, either because the raids of the Hunza robbers have given it ill fame,or else because its glaciers too have become harder to cross. No European has ever crossed the New Mustagh. In 1856 RudolfSchlagintweit tried the ascent from Askoley, but was driven back bya snowstorm. Godwin Austen had the same experience in 1861. He. AX ALLrVIAI. DELTA OK THE BIAHO. met on the glacier four Baltis, who came from Yarkand, and he saysthat it would be quite easy to trace a convenient and safe route acrossthe pass, which is approached on itoth sides by so easy a slope that itwas formerly iised for horses and yaks. Drew gives quite a differentaccount, stating that the horses had to be hauled up by ropes, and thatit took several men to hoist and support them, so that the pass fell intodisuse, and between 1863 and 1870 all communication ceased betweenBaltistan and Turkestan. The last to try to reach the New Mustaghwas Sir Francis Younghusband, who had reached Askoley by the older 170 Chapter X. pass of the same name in 1887. His ascent was stopped by falls ofseracs, which seems to prove the truth of the story that the glaciersliad changed. In fact, twenty years previously Godwin Austen hadnote
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