Pilgrim wearing chuba at Mt. Kailash in Tibet, 1909 (cropped)

Identifier: transhimalayadis02hedi (find matches)

Title: Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet

Year: 1909 (1900s)

Authors: Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952

Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel

Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., ltd.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the Trans-Himalaya, from the otherside of which the water flows to the Indus, and mountin an easterly direction over rough steep slopes thicklybestrewn with granite boulders. On our right is the riverwhich is fed by the glaciers of Kailas ; it is quite short, butis very full of water. The path becomes still steeper,winding among immense blocks of granite, and leads upto the first hump, after which the ground is a little moreeven to the next break. Here we have a splendid view ofthe short truncated glacier which, fed from a sharply definedtrough-shaped firn basin, lies on the north side of Kailas.Its terminal, lateral, and medial moraines are small butdistinct. Eastwards from Kailas runs off an exceedinglysharp, pointed, and jagged ridge, covered on the north sidewith snow, and belts of pebbles in the snow give all thisside a furrowed appearance. From all corners of the icemantle and the snowfields foaming brooks hurry down tothe river. On our left, northwards, the mountains consist

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? I: ROUND KANG-RINPOCHE 195as of vertical fissured granite in wild pyramidal forms. Kail_is protected on the north by immense masses of granitebut the mountain itself is in all probability of conglomerate!as shown by the nearly horizontal bedding plainly per-ceptible in the projecting ledges, sharply marked snow-lines, and belts of ice. The summit rises above this sea ofwild mountains like a mighty crystal of hexagonal form. A party of poor women and children climbed wearily upto the pass. An elderly man, who was now making hisninth circuit, made no objection to join our party; heknew the country and could give information about it. Onanother rise in the ground, called Tutu-dapso, we sawhundreds of votive cairns, 3 feet high—quite a forestof stone pyramids—like innumerable gravestones in achurchyard (Illust. 270). Slowly and laboriously we climbed up this arduouspass, one of the most troublesome on the whole journey.Thicker and thicker lay the boulders, exclusively of granitein a

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