Sand Buried Ruin of Khotan 19 - Stein is now at the Chinese border - the Kilik Pass is slightly east of the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan and is the direct crossing Stein used between India and Chinese Turkistan - Stein had to time these crossings carefully - too early in spring and the snow would be too deep, but too late and the snow would be melting, soft underfoot and filling the streams to over flowing. Sometimes he had to 'compromise' and start up at 3 or 4 AM while the snow was still hard.