Author : Edward Backhouse Eastwick
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230145594
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...as that animal is said to be sure footed in snow, but experience shows that with European riders they can both flounder and fall. At a frozen lake, the Suraj Dall, it will be best perhaps to get into a di/H. After that several m. of snow fields are traversed, and the snow becomes softer On account of the high altitude, it will be desirable to push on 8 m. beyond the usual stage from Topo Yomak to Topo Komo. The Bhagha river is left before reaching the former place, its source being on the other side of the Bara Lacha, and the course again lies along the Chandra. It must be observed that the Spiti route or road turns shortoff from the Bara Lacha Pass, downwards. The traveller must have a guide here among his village men, for otherwise on the rounded hummocks at the top of this long Pass he will not distinguish the road, and to lose it would, at least, cause him great fatigue. The road in this stage is only a track, sometimes along the river, sometimes higher up over rocks, which here strew the ground. It is impossible to ride, and the elevation is too great for walking, but the Kulis will carry one well. The country from the Bard Lacha Pass is a succession of high barren rocks, towering up into the snows without vegetation or animal life, grand and desolate to the last degree. There are no villages, and the ravines are filled with glaciers. The stage from Topo Komo to Chandra Dall, the next encamping ground, about 10 m., is merely a path 6 in. wide, along the sides of sloping shale cliffs which give way under one's feet. Below at several hundred feet runs the Chandra river; here neither ponies nor men can carry one, and there is nothing for it but to walk oneself, and be supported by the villagers who carry ', the loads. Here a rope would...