Detail of map A in Innermostasia - shows the area along the Indus river gorge in Chilas and Stein's roundabout route into Darel and Tangir - Gilgit, where there was already a British outpost is on north- east corner above where the Gilgit river flows into the Indus - Note Stein went by skin raft down the Indus west of Chilas because the walls of the gorge are too steep. For his first expedition he traveled from Astor directly to Gilgit and then on north to Hunza.