. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. n his survejingwork, and the name was preserved inadvertently. In the course of atopographical campaign it is unavoidable to give some temporaryconventional name or sign to peaks which have to be identified fromdifferent stations. Beyond this casual naming the Duke, as I haveex])lained, named none of the many peaks measured by us, agreeingwith Burrard that, until a rational system shall be found, it is betterto designate peaks simply by theii- altitudes. We now cro
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. n his survejingwork, and the name was preserved inadvertently. In the course of atopographical campaign it is unavoidable to give some temporaryconventional name or sign to peaks which have to be identified fromdifferent stations. Beyond this casual naming the Duke, as I haveex])lained, named none of the many peaks measured by us, agreeingwith Burrard that, until a rational system shall be found, it is betterto designate peaks simply by theii- altitudes. We now crossed the mouth of another small valley, and at the nextopening in the wall we left the ice and skirted a gentle grassy slope 19221) o 4 216 Chapter XII. where Conway had camped (Fan Camp), and whence he climbed to asaddle on the ridge, from which he had his first sight of K- and wasable to realize the vast dimensions of Broad Peak. We finally came back to the glacier proper, where we were able toproceed more rapidly and with less fatigue, in a space between twobands of moraine where there were numerous little lakes. In a few. THE MAKBLE PEAK AT THE CORNER BETWEEN THE GODWIN AXD THE BALTORO. minutes we reached the 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 serac
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