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The Mission to Yarkund and Kashgar: the Sasser Pass, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

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The Mission to Yarkund and Kashgar: the Sasser Pass, 1874. 'The route from Leh to Yarkund, which Mr. Forsyth and his companions travelled in October,...is tremendously difficult and toilsome. We cannot believe that it will ever be made convenient for ordinary traffic. One of the views here given shows the party at breakfast in the Sasser Pass, 17,000 ft. above the sea level. Their way for eighteen miles lay through glaciers to which those of Switzerland are nothing. In some places there was danger from the deep crevasses hidden beneath soft fresh snow. But the travellers got over this pass without any disaster, using yaks or Thibet oxen instead of horses or mules. They were glad of a hot breakfast in that bleak place, after so much fatigue'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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