A larger look at Stein's map of his routes through the mountains south and south-west of Khotan=at the far left edge is the route across the Karakorum pass back into India. In the map center follow his route south from Gosringa as he sought to break through the gorges of the Yurung Kash up two glaciers but was forced to turn back by recalcitrant local hired workers. He then cross the Yurung on a makeshift bridge and returned to Khotan by a different route. This effort was early in the expedition. The following year he circumvented the mountain range by traveling far east and round the gorges via Keriya and then as the map shows came west over the high plateaus south of the mountains to the headwaters of the Kara Kash. He then made several circles through the mountains before reaching the caravan route over the Karakorum.