. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. Peak. — The Doksam Glacier. ?— The MarblePeak. — Godwin Austen Glacier. — In Sight of K. From this point forward thenarrative may be supplementedby the map of the expeditioncomprising the two upper thirdsof the Baltoro and its formationbasin, drawn to the scale of1 : 100,000. But no description,even with the assistance ofphotography, can succeed, I fear,in giving a just conception, evenif a faint one, of this extra-ordinary region. To composethe picture as far as m
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. Peak. — The Doksam Glacier. ?— The MarblePeak. — Godwin Austen Glacier. — In Sight of K. From this point forward thenarrative may be supplementedby the map of the expeditioncomprising the two upper thirdsof the Baltoro and its formationbasin, drawn to the scale of1 : 100,000. But no description,even with the assistance ofphotography, can succeed, I fear,in giving a just conception, evenif a faint one, of this extra-ordinary region. To composethe picture as far as may be,the reader must tax his patienceto make a careful study ofSellas panoramas, which weretaken from many points, andcompare them with one another and with the maj). It is in order tomake this possible that not only the topographical stations, but alsothe points from which the photographs were taken, are marked uponthe triangulation map, and the panoramas provided with the nomen-clature and altitudes of the different peaks. In addition, the pointsfrom wluch other panoramas were taken are marked with a small cross. From Rdokass to the Concordia Amphitheatre. 205 so as to make comparison easy. The illustrations in the text and theplates are intended to give special details from the panoramas. I hopethat the frequently recurring references to the latter may be justifiedby this explanation. On the morning of May 23rd at about eight oclock, after a littlehesitation owing to the uncertain look of the weather, we placed ourtrust in the stability of the barometer and in the wind, which seemedto be veering from south-west to north-east, and we all set out fromRdokass, leaving only the shepherds, a couple of chuprassis and a fewcoolies in Mi. Baines service. The Dukes plan was to follow thereturn route of the Eckenstein-Pfannl-Guillarmod expedition—that is,to cut across the Baltoro toward a camping ground at the foot of thenorthern slope, a httle above Younghusband glacier, w
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