Identifier: karakoramwestern00defi (find matches)
Title: Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: De Filippi, Filippo, 1869-1938 Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di, duca degli Abruzzi, 1873-1933
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Publisher: New York : Dutton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ere only brought to an end with the concjuest of the latter territoriesby an EngUsh mihtary expedition and their annexation to the kingdomof Kashmir. Incredible as it may seem, these marauding bands usedto traverse the whole length of the Hispar glacier, cross the col anddescend the Biafo, more than 65 miles of ice, for the purpose of raidingAskoley. The last raid was in 1840. A band of 700 or 800 men, ledby the Wazir Hollo, reached Askoley in the autumn, and seems to havedeparted with rich booty, obtained either by violence—as GodwinAusten was told in 1861—or according to Conway in the form of a ransompaid by the village. But the season was too far advanced, and thewhole baud is supposed to have been lost among the glaciers and snow-storms on the way back, only the leader escaping with his hfe.^ I will Guiu.AHMOD (op. cit. p. 146) gives a wholly different version of this raid, confusing theNagar tribes with the Tibetans, the Hispar with the Mustagh pass, etc. Mango Gasor Skoro-La
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Range ou the left hand side of the Braldoh Valk7 (from a height to the North of Askoley, about 13.000 ft.) Mango Gusor

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