Ruins of desert Cathay: personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China, Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Survey of India, B. Blom, 1968, ... successfully pushed across the glacier-covered Hindu-tash Pass, some 17,400 feet above the sea, into the high valley of Pusha. For nearly half a century the latter has figured in our maps as almost the only local name ...
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Volume 48, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), 1878, ... On the Karakash River, above Fotash, is a camping-ground called Sumgal, from which Robert Schlagintweit crossed the Kuen Luen Range by the Hindu-tagh Pass, estimated by him at 17,379 feet high. At the top of this pass is a glacier much crevassed and extremely steep ...
