. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. last confluent glacier on this side of the valley,which is not very large, and flows down from a strange-looking peak,a pinnacle of pure white marble rising from a wide base of black slatyschists. This glacier, like the Liligo, does not reach the Baltoro, butends not far from it, between two moraines of dazzhng white marble,in a great frontal wafl of broken ice hke a line of surf. The ShikariAbdullah told us that this glacier had totally changed its appearancesince
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. last confluent glacier on this side of the valley,which is not very large, and flows down from a strange-looking peak,a pinnacle of pure white marble rising from a wide base of black slatyschists. This glacier, like the Liligo, does not reach the Baltoro, butends not far from it, between two moraines of dazzhng white marble,in a great frontal wafl of broken ice hke a line of surf. The ShikariAbdullah told us that this glacier had totally changed its appearancesince 1902, when the Eckenstein-Pfannl-Guillarmod expedition campedin the space between it and the Baltoro (Doksam Camp). Certainly itwould not now be possible to set up the tents on the small level that From Rdokass to the Concordia Ainphitlieatre. 217 remains, which is under continual fire from the seracs of the advancingglacier. We had now nearly reached the end of the Baltoro valley a short distance from us a promontory from the base of the marblepeak ran down to the glacier. We knew that this was the last obstacle. FIRST SIGHT OF K. between us and the sight of the Godwin Austen valley and K-, whichlay behind it, and we were seized with unspeakable restlessness andfear lest the mist should cut us ofE from the long-looked-for reward,which had been in the background of our consciousness through everystep of the long way. We rounded the spur following the wide sweep of moraine, nowgrown level and even, almost without noticing the vast space of theConcordia amphitheatre spread out before us. Suddenly, and withoutwarning, as if a veil had been lifted from our eyes, the wide Godwin 218 Chaptfv XII. Austen valley lay before us in its whole length. Down at the end, alone,detached from all the other mountains, soared up K-, the indisputablesovereign of the legion, gigantic and solitary, hidden from human sightby innumerable ranges, jealously defended by a vast throng of vassalp
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