This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the deep white mantle that still held the middle mountain world in the sleep of winter. About half a mile above the moraine we had just left, a large branch a mile wide enters the Hoh Lumba from the west. This sub-divides into three smaller branches, of which the middle one springs from the snows of Mt. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the deep white mantle that still held the middle mountain world in the sleep of winter. About half a mile above the moraine we had just left, a large branch a mile wide enters the Hoh Lumba from the west. This sub-divides into three smaller branches, of which the middle one springs from the snows of Mt. Ganchen. The Chaltoro, another branch, enters on the east side just opposite, and again on the west side shortly above, two others, making four branches in all. We marched up the glacier over a succession of large ice-hillocks separated by wide furrows, and about noon reached the point of divergence and struck into the left-hand or west branch leading north-west. Just above the dividing point there was a good-sized lake in the glacier, its surface frozen over and partially covered with snow. The weather now changed. Heavy clouds rolled over the sky, and by three o'clock snow was falling so briskly that we could see nothing five hundred feet distant. Looking around for a favourable place to camp, we found a flat snow-surface near a glacial water-pool for our tents, and some rocks below to shelter the coolies, who take to rocks as a rat does to a hole. Here we proceeded to make ourselves as comfortable as circumstances allowed. This was named Snow-Hillock Camp. On this occasion it was not necessary to melt snow for water. All water buckets were speedily filled, lest the reservoir should freeze over in the lowering temperature. The coolietents proved insufficient for the number of coolies, and, much to our regret, we were obliged to loan them one of ours. Loaning a tent to coolies, even for a night, is the ruin of that tent, so far as the further use of it for oneself is concerned, as those who know coolie-humanity can well imagine. It snowed and...
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