Siberia and the exile system . THE DKSCENT INTO THE (ioRGE OF THE I almost impossible to keep in the saddle on account of thesteepness of the incline, and once I just escaped beingpitched over my horses head at the end of one of his shortslides. We finally reached a very steep but grassy slope, likethe side of a titanic embankment, down which we zigzagged,with much discomfort but without any danger, to the •).J4 SIBERIA hoUom of the Katun valley. As we rode towards tli(^ greatpeaks, and tinally, leaving our horses, climbed up on theprineipal glacier, I saw how greatly we had underestimateddist
Siberia and the exile system . THE DKSCENT INTO THE (ioRGE OF THE I almost impossible to keep in the saddle on account of thesteepness of the incline, and once I just escaped beingpitched over my horses head at the end of one of his shortslides. We finally reached a very steep but grassy slope, likethe side of a titanic embankment, down which we zigzagged,with much discomfort but without any danger, to the •).J4 SIBERIA hoUom of the Katun valley. As we rode towards tli(^ greatpeaks, and tinally, leaving our horses, climbed up on theprineipal glacier, I saw how greatly we had underestimateddistances, heights, and magnitudes, from the elevated. position which we had previously occupied. The KatiinEiver, which, from above, had looked like a narrow, dirtywhite ribbon that a child could step across, proved to be atoiTent thirty or forty feet wide, with a current almost deepand strong enough to sweep away a horse and rider. Themain glacier, which I had taken to be about three hundred BRIDLE PATHS OF THE ALTAI 225 feet wide, proved to have a width of more than half a mile;and its central moraine, which had looked to me like a stripof black sand piled up to the height of six or seven feet likea long furnace dump, proved to be an enormous mass of
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