KIUNG (Cavity at)

(Leh Tehsil - IN)
33.250000,77.833300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An inhabitable, though relatively small cavity of dubious nature (unidentified dimensions). SITUATION: On the way (note 1) from Sum-ghi-el (see: Caves at –>Samgyal, note 2) to Ruk-chu (note 3) report from a place about 6 or 7 km into the plains of Kiung where a couple of rugged ascends brought us to the extensive plain of Kiung [note 4], which about two miles [3 km] in breadth, but considerably longer, forming a valley bounded by low mountains, with sloping sides and flattish summits. We halted in a small cavity, after a march of about four miles [6 or 7 km] over the plain… [on the following day, the march] … continued along the plain … Shortly after reaching Ruk-chu, shepherds' station, near the end of the valley … we halted (MOORCROFT & TREBECK 1841, 1: 224).An inhabitable, though relatively small cavity of dubious nature (unidentified dimensions). SITUATION: On the way (note 1) from Sum-ghi-el (see: Caves at –>Samgyal, note 2) to Ruk-chu (note 3) report from a place about 6 or 7 km into the plains of Kiung where a couple of rugged ascends brought us to the extensive plain of Kiung [note 4], which about two miles [3 km] in breadth, but considerably longer, forming a valley bounded by low mountains, with sloping sides and flattish summits. We halted in a small cavity, after a march of about four miles [6 or 7 km] over the plain… [on the following day, the march] … continued along the plain … Shortly after reaching Ruk-chu, shepherds' station, near the end of the valley … we halted (MOORCROFT & TREBECK 1841, 1: 224).

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Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1820.09.11-12: William MOORCROFT & Georg 'George' TREBECK (1841, 1: 224) in company with Mir Izzet Ullah, spend a night in a cavity at the extensive pkain of Kiung. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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