. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. tributary valley opens on the same side,as deep and level as the first in its lower course, but much wider. Outof this, too, flows a glacier with a wide medial moraine, and overtopsthe margin of the Baltoro with a high front of seracs. These valleys • The map of tin- Baltoro contained in tliis volume shows only the upper two-thirds of theglacier, which the reader must imagine to be prolonged for 10 miles more toward the west. Thelittle panorama which is here reprod
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. tributary valley opens on the same side,as deep and level as the first in its lower course, but much wider. Outof this, too, flows a glacier with a wide medial moraine, and overtopsthe margin of the Baltoro with a high front of seracs. These valleys • The map of tin- Baltoro contained in tliis volume shows only the upper two-thirds of theglacier, which the reader must imagine to be prolonged for 10 miles more toward the west. Thelittle panorama which is here reproduced, together with the left half of panorama B, must makiup for the lack of the map. Fiolu Askolev to Rdokass. 181 are separated from each other by the rocky spurs which we had ah-eadyadmired from Paiju, and which from near at hand appear even moreinaccessible. They form a wild architecture of their own, a maze ofturrets, pinnacles, needles, reaching up to a height of some 1,000 feetand so precipitous that they scarcely leave the perpendicular from topto bottom. They remind one of the dolomite towers, but it was difficult. THE STONY WASTE Of THE LOWER BALTORO, SHOWING THE NORTHERV WALL. from this distance to recognize the true nature of the formation. Tothe west of these we saw Paiju Peak, a pile of triangular rock pyramidsrising one above another, cleai-ly outlined by their ice ridges and liftingup a symmetrical pointed summit completely covered with snow. About half-past nine we reached a point opposite a little gorgeopening out in the left wall of the valley, in such a way as to leave freea small space at the bottom of the gully between the glacier and therock. This was the stage known as Liligo. Here the coolies crowdedround us, trying to induce us to stop, though it w^as still quite had no great difficulty in persuading them to go on for another hour,when we reached another couloir in the wall almost exactly similarto the first. Here the guides quickly cut step
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