. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. hese formations nieves penitentes, serac variety. Theterm nieves penitentef, is generally used to designate specific surfaceformations of the snow in the Andes mountains and other places, causedeither by melting or by the wind. Dr. Workman has, in repeatedpublications, 1 urged its extension to all the manifold projections and » W. Hunter Workmax. Ocog. Jour. 31, 1908. |> :i4 and 394 : 32. 19()S. p. 139 ; 34. 570; Zeit. far Gktsrherk. 2, 1907, p. 22; 3
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. hese formations nieves penitentes, serac variety. Theterm nieves penitentef, is generally used to designate specific surfaceformations of the snow in the Andes mountains and other places, causedeither by melting or by the wind. Dr. Workman has, in repeatedpublications, 1 urged its extension to all the manifold projections and » W. Hunter Workmax. Ocog. Jour. 31, 1908. |> :i4 and 394 : 32. 19()S. p. 139 ; 34. 570; Zeit. far Gktsrherk. 2, 1907, p. 22; 3, 1909, part 4; also tlic voluiius written by himand Mrs. Wokkm^vn, Peaks and Glaciers of the Nun Knn. London 1909 : The Call of tht Snow)/HisjMir. London 1910, etc. 230 Chapter XIII. protuberances which render uneven the surface of mountain ice or snow,and has created at will a complicated classification, distinguishing eightvarieties and three sub-varieties. It is not easy to understand theadvantage gained from confounding the most diverse glacial formations,which have neither origin, production nor composition in SOUTHERN WALL OF K . We dkected our steps straight toward the aiigle at the right sideof the glacier wlxich cuts the southern wall of K- and flows out on theGodwin Austen with a high front of seracs, like the tributaries of theBaltoro. At the foot of this glacier is a small stretch of marginalmoraine, shut in between the valley wall and the side of the GodwinAusten, below a depression in the south-western spur of K^ (XegrottoPass). Here there was a refuge from falhng stones and ice, protected From CoiRonlia to the Foot of Iv -. on three sides from the wind, and getting the sun fioni early morningtill four in the afternoon. Upon this spot the DulvC had fixed his ^ towered up immediately above us, but so foreshortened as to losenmch of its height—it does not seem possible that it rises to nearly12,000 feet above us. Broad Peak is opposite, acro
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