North Karakoram

The following brief account of a journey in the little-known MuztaghShaksgam area in 1945 may be of interest as so few travellers have visited this remote and unattractive country in the North Karakoram. From Phurzin-i-Dasht at the mouth of the Braldu river to the confluence of the Muztagh-Shaksgam river J with the stream from the Sarpo Laggo, the only previous traveller is the late Sir Francis Younghusband on the second of his Central Asian journeys in 1889.* Our route was from Gilgit to Baltit, the capital of Hunza; thence to the Shimshal valley, over the pass of that name, and down the Braldu river to Phurzin-i-Dasht where the Braldu flows into the

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