Photo no. 71. Taken from photo station no. 9, (photo no. 5). Photo no. 71 shows view down valley of Huadquina River. These meandering little streams carry the melt water from the entire east-draining glacier system from Ttiyuyoc around the semicircle to Ccollpacinac-Human. In other words from most of the ice shown in my whole series of photos! This total flow just about matches that from the snout of one average Canadian glacier. (A lot of water must evaporate and a lot of snow and ice must sublime in the Peruvian Andes.) The little indian village of Sascara is about a mile below the point where the streams disappear around the bend. (Note size of old moraines.) Up stream (i.e. under camera, out of view) the valley forks. (See photo 73). Our base camp site was in the north fork (under camera view and to left in photo 71). The south fork is indicated by arrow 44 in photos 73, 74, 75, 3, 24, 2. Photograph by Fred D. Ayres. [circa 1955].
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Photo no. 71. Taken from photo station no. 9, (photo no. 5). Photo no. 71 shows view down valley of Huadquina River. These meandering little streams carry the melt water from the entire east-draining glacier system from Ttiyuyoc around the semicircle to Ccollpacinac-Human. In other words from most of the ice shown in my whole series of photos! This total flow just about matches that from the snout of one average Canadian glacier. (A lot of water must evaporate and a lot of snow and ice must sublime in the Peruvian Andes.) The little indian village of Sascara is about a mile below the point where the streams disappear around the bend. (Note size of old moraines.) Up stream (i.e. under camera, out of view) the valley forks. (See photo 73). Our base camp site was in the north fork (under camera view and to left in photo 71). The south fork is indicated by arrow 44 in photos 73, 74, 75, 3, 24, 2. Photograph by Fred D. Ayres. [circa 1955].
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