Mt Kawakarpo, 1924

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Or as Joseph Rock described it in his article "Through the Great River Trenches of Asia": Mount Kaakerpu, with a huge glacier descending to the Mekong.

The river flows down in its rocky trench at the foot of the mountain. The photograph was made from an elevation of 13,500 feet above sea level.