An attempt is made in the following pages to show the evidences of Pleistocene and recent climatic fluctuations in the region of upper Urumchi valley, Sinkiang, based on the field work carried out during the summer of 1960. Most of the 55 present glaciers owe their existence to an exceptionally favourable exposition (Plate 1). The present glaciers occupying their ancesters' cirques are heavily loaded with ablation moraines. We observed moraine-covered dead ice masses immediately downstream from the tongue o...