Treachery in Tibet (2014)
“He had taken with him about two-thirds of the force left behind at Chang Lo by Macdonald: both of his guns and machine guns, three companies of his own 32nd Sikh Pioneers, one company of the 8th Gurkhas and virtually all of Fonthill’s Mounted Infantry. Their route, which had often forced them to march in single file, had taken them to the highest source of the Nyang river, just underneath a glacier that rose above it, peaking in a vast wall of snow 24,000 feet high.Just twenty-four hours after ...the attack on the mission, he and his 300 men halted at the wall, which had been built across the defile, about a mile and a half beyond the pass itself. Here, in the bitterly cold air, a little more than 16,000 feet above sea level, they paused.Fonthill and Jenkins rode back to meet Brander and take him and his senior officers to the wall, leaving Ottley with the horsemen. The Colonel scanned it and whistled. ‘Lord,’ he mused. ‘Worse than I thought. Toughest we’ve faced yet.’ It was, in fact, a little over six feet high, four feet thick and eight hundred yards long, cleverly loopholed and protected by sangars that climbed a little way up the sides of the semi-sheer walls on either side and projected forward.MoreLess
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