. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. Askoley The Braldoh valley above Askoley o r^ From Skardu to Askoley 159 speak later on of two other routes—across the Puiimah glacier andacross the Baltoro—which at one time connected Askoley with thecountry north of the Karakoram, Chinese Turkestan. We had a great deal of work to get through, which kept us atAskoley for the whole of the day following our arrival. Sella, whohad worked late into the previous night to set the photographicequipment in order, took adv
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. Askoley The Braldoh valley above Askoley o r^ From Skardu to Askoley 159 speak later on of two other routes—across the Puiimah glacier andacross the Baltoro—which at one time connected Askoley with thecountry north of the Karakoram, Chinese Turkestan. We had a great deal of work to get through, which kept us atAskoley for the whole of the day following our arrival. Sella, whohad worked late into the previous night to set the photographicequipment in order, took advantage of the halt to climb with his gunand camera on to the rock wall which overhangs Askoley. He was. GETTING SUPPLIES AT ASKOLEY. rewarded by a panorama of the Mango Gusor range, a collection ofspecimens of garnets and a fine ram chikor (tetraogcdlus Tibetanus), thegiant partridge of the Himalaya. According to Thomson the peopleof Askoley hunt these partridges by forming a ring around them ingreat numbers, and beating them from side to side with shouts and sticksuntil they are so exhausted that they can be caught with the spite of the remaikable barreimess of the slopes, big herils of ibexand markhor, and innumerable nuirmots, partridges and otlier wildcreatures, manage to live on the scanty grass growing on the high slopesin corners and crevices known to them only. itju Chapter TX. We had a little flock of sheep and goats put together to keep ussupplied with niilk and meat. Tliey were to be kept on one of thesouthern spurs of the Baltoro glacier, where there would be pasturagethroughout the summer months. They were at once sent ahead withtheir shepherds. We carried with us a
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