. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. SURFACE LAKE OX THE LOWER BALTORO. depth of the glacier, there are no open crevasses and none of the glaciermoulins, those characteristic wells so common in our own glaciers belowthe snow line, by which the water produced by surface melting dis-appears into the depths. We found signs of running waters, however,in the shape of round worn pebbles of typical allu\ial appearance,mingled in small numbei-s with the sharp-cornered moraine glacier fills the v
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. SURFACE LAKE OX THE LOWER BALTORO. depth of the glacier, there are no open crevasses and none of the glaciermoulins, those characteristic wells so common in our own glaciers belowthe snow line, by which the water produced by surface melting dis-appears into the depths. We found signs of running waters, however,in the shape of round worn pebbles of typical allu\ial appearance,mingled in small numbei-s with the sharp-cornered moraine glacier fills the valley from side to side, forming a V-shaped troughbetween its steep side and the rocks of the valley wall. On the maps (9221) M -2 180 duiptor X. of Conway and Guillarmod a torrent runs through this deep trough,but it did not appear to be flowing as yet. No tributary glacier flowsinto the Baltoro from the south side, by which we were ascending it,for the first four miles of the lower course. ^ But on the other side of thevalley there flows into the Baltoro a few hundred yards above its enda large confluent bare of moiaine, w
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