Identifier: beyondpirpanjal00neve (find matches)
Title: Beyond the Pir Panjal; life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Neve, Ernest Frederic, 1861-
Subjects: Kashmir Missions, Medical Mountaineering
Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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APPROACHES TO MOUNT KOLAHOI 137 topped head. It is sociable, too, for often it will accompanythe traveller for some distance, flitting from rock to rock andwagging its tail up and down. Perhaps, however, itwishes to see him away from the vicinity of its nest.The water-robin is another familiar inhabitant of thesemountain streams; and stone-chats and wagtails arecommon. The Armiung River descends steeply in a narrow valley.On its left bank are towering cliffs—the precipitous northernface of the ridge which separates it from Pahlgam. Ourpath lies along the right bank, and above us on our left, aswe climb, is a marvellous series of glacier-polished rockyknolls and shoulders, stretching up to two or three thousandfeet above the river. The surface of many of these is wet,and cuirass-like, reflects the high light. In olden days theremust have been an immense southern Kolahoi glacier fillingthis valley. As we ascend we pass as usual through scattered pinesand dense fir forest, and cross ev

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