Citations:Depsang Plains

English citations of Depsang Plains

• 1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 345:

  The uplifted western rim of the plateau concealed all the world except a few ice-peaks that lifted above it. One of them was K2, the highest peak in the world bar Mount Everest, but from the Depsang Plains, which are sixteen or seventeen thousand feet, K2 and its companions looked strangely truncated.

• 1964, Alastair Lamb, “The Aksai Chin Boundary in 1875”, in The China-India Border‎^[2], Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 77:

  Dr Thomson, who was the first Englishman to visit that pass—an 18,000-foot high obstacle astride one of the ancient routes between India and Central Asia—observed to its south-east what are now called the Depsang Plains, the extreme western edge of the desolate wasteland of the northern Tibetan plateau.

• 1988, Peter Hillary, Rimo: Mountain on the Silk Road‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:

  I had to have one last look at the Depsang Plains before we left the next day. No one else seemed particularly enthused, so I set off alone up the long gradual slope behind our cricket pitch. Moving quickly I gained the lip of the plain in forty-five minutes and walked off across its remarkable horizontal surface. So strange a place was it that I felt I could be somewhere as remote and curious as on the moon.

• 2022 March 15, Sudha Ramachandran, “No Breakthrough at 15th Round of China-India Talks”, in The Diplomat‎^[4], archived from the original on 15 March 2022:

  Contrary to reports that reaching a settlement on disengagement at Hot Springs will be easy, this is proving to be a stumbling block. Former military officials say that it is an area that is important to both sides.
  “Low hanging fruit? The geography of the area makes it as important as Depsang Plains, if not more. Recall in 1959 the first clash took place here!” Harcharanjit Singh Panag, a retired lieutenant general in the Indian Army tweeted.