. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. 1G2 Chapter X. its deep valley, was not yet visible, but beyond it stietched the rangeof icy peaks which form the eastern wall of the Punmah valley,dominated by a magnificent mountain known to the natives as Paiju,because its other slope overlooks a camping ground of this name at thefoot of the Baltoro glacier. We now once more made our way across the shingle and pebbles ofthe valley bottom, no longer the narrow gorge it was below Askoley,but over a mile wide and q
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. 1G2 Chapter X. its deep valley, was not yet visible, but beyond it stietched the rangeof icy peaks which form the eastern wall of the Punmah valley,dominated by a magnificent mountain known to the natives as Paiju,because its other slope overlooks a camping ground of this name at thefoot of the Baltoro glacier. We now once more made our way across the shingle and pebbles ofthe valley bottom, no longer the narrow gorge it was below Askoley,but over a mile wide and quite level. In less than an hour we stood. ?IltK FdKT VT ASKOLEV. before the marvellous spectacle of the Biafo ice stream, over 300 feethigh, which, coming down out of a tributary valley on the right, breaksinto the Braldoh valley and appears to cut it off for its whole widthas far as the rocks at the foot of Mango Gusor. The glacier is coveredwith a black layer of shingle, showing the clear ice only in verticalbreaks and cracks. In its invasion of the Braldoh valley it has pushedthe river up against the left wall of the valley, while its own emissary,the Biafo torrent, escapes from its side near the right bank of the valleyand meets the Braldoh farther down. The two rivers and the side ofthe glacier thus enclose an irregular sandy delta on the level valleyl)ed, which is dotted with brushwood, dwarf junipers and willows.^ The tciininal snout of thi Biafo and the delta betwiin tlic two rivers are clearly sil)le inthe panorama reproduced opposite p. 158. From Askolev lo IJdokass. 163 We had no difficulty in fording the vario
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