The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-01
rec STREAMS or ASIA.
4 Glacier Burst Witnessed ~ Expl0sera
IN ths Karakoram Range.

4 Glacier Burst WITNESSED ~ Explorers
IN ths karakoFam Range.
LoNDON. April 70 - DR.. T. q. LongstaH.
who has just returned 70 London from an
exploration OF the glaciers Of eastern
Karukoram. told about HE work In . leo-
ture before the Royal 0eographical
society.
Dr. LongstaH said that Of the mountain
regions Of high Asia which were politically
accessible 10 tho ordinary traveller there
was none concerning. which detailed
information was more soanty than the
eastern section Of tho great KarakOrAm
range Between YOunGhushand'a huz-
taRh Pass and tho KATakoFAm Pass on the
Lsh- Yarkand trade routs. q diatancs OF
100 miles a. the crow hiea. ~ had no
record Of any passage acros the main
avis % elevation having ever boen of-
fectsd by a European.
There were traditions relating 70 an old
route known a. the 8altorO PAS. and u
was tho olucidAtion Of this latter problem
&C witch he aimed. East of ~ dsgroos
east and north Of As degrees 70 minutes
north lay an area. roughly measuring .
degree IN each direction. into which no
traveller had ever penetrated and which
had never hesn surveyed. They knew
that IL was a region Of snow clad noun
tains and that u was quite uninhabited
The party left SrinSGar on May 70
end assembled 10 the summit Of the pass on
June r. There they found AZ an slsituds
OF n. 100 feet a level snowtisld with q very
rentle slops toward the northeast sue.
csssied by a stsspsr drop. Thsrs vas thus
a good deal Of dad ground on eithsF SIDE
OF thsH. which. added 70 the clouds alFeady
covering the highest peaks. considerably
distracted from the results obtained by
ca mera and plano table.
They could sss that srun thsir pas q
broad glacier led gently downward In q
northeas,erlY direction and ioined = still
larger glacier AZ riGht anglos, which a.
frst seemed % them 20 n0w n0rlhWArd
thew supposed. into the Oprang Valley
through some gao In HOunGhuaband's
wall but that same afternoon they APP
proached sufficiently near 20 So that the
main glacier was flowing % the south.
Revond this was a Ange Of very lofty
paaks their SUBMITS hidden by clouds.
which they assumed formed part Of the
ARhl range. They very naturally be-
LEVIED that they had Crossed the main
divide Of the Karakoram and that there
fore this huge To- stream must curve
around to the east and discharge into the
Yarkand River.
They began tho descent and in the
Afternoon they oampsd 0N.aO0 foet) on
hare ice close 10 the birthplace Of the
right lateral moraine. The croaks and
xroans emitted by the slowly moving loo
10 frightened their men that In spite Of
the cold they left their tents and passed
the night huddled up In the open.
They uamped al tho spot wtisTs tho eft
lateral morains % thsir glacier effected
a junction with tho night lateral moraino
ofths main ics stream as. rs feetl. Prom
their camp they saw that they woro upOn
an enormous glacier. fully thrSo miles In
breadth and BY far the biggest any o.
thern RAD ever Dseu. u WAs lowing from
northwest 20 southeast. or approximately
from the direction Of COnWay's Hidden
Peak
The party on the return Journey 70
crosIsd the Saltoro Pass back into Bal
tisan. On the way they Witnessed hne
rlacier burst. u was hernided By loud
and prolonRed roaring sound. quits unlike
ANYTHING he had ever heard. They soon
located u. bursting from sedo Rlaoisr
IN . ravins high above tho right bank %
the main ics stream. The whole hillside
.semod % be moving e. . tors = o. black
muddy water rolled great ma1gea OF Ice
and rcck down its bare slopo1.