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To select the climbers Alexander summoned his customary counsellors and instructed them: Let you fetch me three hundred of the fittest young fellows from your respective forces, such as at home herd their flocks up mountain tracks and across crags that are practically impassable. So they were sheph...

Thanks for those references. Can you tell me where the one that you quote in your post comes from. It seems to describe a very different rock to Arrian, who talks about the soldiers using tent pegs and flaxen rope to climb the mountain. Are there a few different Sogdian rock assaults in the campaign...

Does anyone know what kind of fortification there was on the Sogdian Rock and how it might have been defended ?
Also, any thoughts as to who might have accepted Alexander's challenge? Can we deduce this from any other stories of
climbers scaling walls or cliffs /
Any suggestions welcome