Author: George W. Hayward
Title: Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar and Exploration of the Sources of theYarkand River (1868)
Published in: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London , 1870, Vol. 40 (1870), pp. 33-166
George Jonas Whitaker Hayward (c. 1839 – 18 July 1870) was a well-known nineteenth-century English explorer. He was one of the earliest Europeans to explore Gilgit and Central Asia. His exploration efforts and eventual murder in Yasin valley (a tributary state of Chitral at that time) during “The Great Game” period eventually earned him a degree of acknowledgement and fame.
Posted on 11 July 2025