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130 THE EXI'LOKATIUN OF THE CAUCASUS a camping-ground for the English mountaineers who explored the snows in 1890. It lies not far from the foot of the steep zigzags that lead up on the side of the glacier that flows out of the basin west of Burdjula. Flocks of sheep, led by men in sheepskin hats and long grey coats, and escorted by savage dogs, were hurrying down from the pass. After entering on the glacier, we missed, or rather abandoned, the tracks of the shepherds, which turned sharply to the left. THE KARAGOJl OI.ACIER Walking straight up to a gap at the head of the neve, we crawled equally straight down a snow- wall, which seemed to me at the time of appalling steepness. Photographs have since con- firmed my first impression. But the snow was in such pei'fect condition that the descent proved neither dangerous nor difficult. From the top we had the amusement of watching a second flock of sheep leap the Bergschrund on the true pass, which lay at some distance on our left. A level glacier and a rocky glen I'eceived us on the north side.
THE ADA! KHulvll eiKuLT 131 The glen soon opened on the great ice-stream we had come to encounter. The first view of it, admirably reproduced in Signor Sella's photograph, was exciting, but hardly encouraging. The ice -falls of the Karagom equal in beauty, iu breadth and in altitude any that I know : not so steep or so formidable as the frozen cataract of the Adi.sh Glacier, they are more singular in their surroundings, and the noble gatewaj- in the mountains through which thev pour adds to their scenic effect. Wc camped — if to KARAl^uM KIIuKH light a fire and spread a mackintosh can be called to camp — in the iir-wood above the moraine. Nineteen years later I revisited the spot, coming up from the valley of the Urukh on the north side. The native track crosses the broad ice-stream, and in the hollow under the moraine, on the right bank, a substantial log-htit offers unexpected shelter to travellers. The position of our 1868 bivouac, with i-egard to the glacier, was similar to that of the Montenvers Inn with regard to the Mer de Glace. Looking northwards over the great frozen billows.
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THE ADA! KHulvll eiKuLT 131<br />
The glen soon opened on the great ice-stream we had come to<br />
encounter. The first view of it, admirably reproduced in Signor<br />
Sella's photograph, was exciting, but hardly encouraging. The<br />
ice -falls of the Karagom equal in beauty, iu breadth and in<br />
altitude any that I know :<br />
not<br />
so steep or so formidable as the<br />
frozen cataract of the Adi.sh Glacier, they are more singular<br />
in their<br />
surroundings, and the noble gatewaj- in the mountains through<br />
which thev pour adds to their scenic effect. Wc camped — if to<br />
KARAl^uM KIIuKH<br />
light a fire and spread a mackintosh can be called to camp — in the<br />
iir-wood above the moraine. Nineteen years later I revisited the<br />
spot, coming up from the valley of the Urukh on the north side.<br />
The native track crosses the broad ice-stream, and in the hollow<br />
under the moraine, on the right bank, a substantial log-htit offers<br />
unexpected shelter to travellers.<br />
The position of our 1868 bivouac, with i-egard to the glacier,<br />
was similar to that of the Montenvers Inn with regard to the<br />
Mer de Glace. Looking northwards over the great frozen billows.
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