Leh Karakoram Pass The Karakoram Pass (Uyghur: قاراقۇرۇم ئېغىزى) is a 5,540 m or 18,176 ft mountain pass between India and China in the Karakoram Range...
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The Karakoram (/ˌkɑːrəˈkɔːrəm, ˌkær-/) is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern...
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35°36′N 74°39′E / 35.600°N 74.650°E / 35.600; 74.650 The Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہ قراقرم, Śāhirāh-i Qarāquram), also known as the KKH, National...
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and serving as the highest point along the Karakoram Highway. The construction of the road across this pass was completed in 1982, and it has since supplanted...
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This is a list of mountain passes of India. List of mountains in India List of mountain passes List of Indian states and union territories by highest...
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The Trans-Karakoram Tract (Chinese: 喀喇昆仑走廊; pinyin: Kālǎkūnlún zǒuláng), also known as the Shaksgam Tract (Urdu: شکسگام, romanized: Shaksgām), is an area...
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between Ladakh and the Tarim Basin, and is the last campsite before the Karakoram Pass. It is said to be named after Sultan Said Khan ("Daulat Beg" [The Statesman])...
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southwest corner of Xinjiang across the Karakoram Pass in the far north. It extends from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram range to the north to the main Great...
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K2 (category Eight-thousanders of the Karakoram)
the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract...
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The Mustagh Pass or Muztagh Pass (Chinese: (东)木斯塔山口) is a mountain pass across the Baltoro Muztagh subrange within the Karakoram, which includes K2, the...
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of an ancient trade route through Lahaul (H.P.) and Ladakh, over the Karakoram Pass and onto Yarkand and Hotan in the Tarim Basin of China. Manali is a...
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demarcated. The boundaries at the two extremities, Pangong Lake and Karakoram Pass, were reasonably well-defined, but the Aksai Chin area in between lay...
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[unreliable source?] By 1892, China had erected boundary markers at Karakoram Pass. In 1897 a British military officer, Sir John Ardagh, proposed a boundary...
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one passed through the Karakoram Pass to Shahidulla at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains and went on to Yarkand through the Kilian and Sanju passes; the...
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Chhushku Murgo Burtsa Qizil Langar Depsang La Gapshan Tianwendian DBO Karakoram Pass The Depsang plains are located in the north-western Aksai Chin. They...
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Alataw Pass to Kazakhstan Dongkhala to India Jelep La to India Karakoram Pass to India Khunjerab Pass to Pakistan Kilik Pass to Pakistan Kulma Pass to Tajikistan...
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I & II) comprises two of the sub-peaks of Skil Brum in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram range. It is on the border between Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered...
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coastal areas of the Indian Ocean in the south to the mountains of the Karakoram, Hindukush, Himalayas ranges in the north. Pakistan geologically overlaps...
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Yarkand passed through Khardung La to pass into the Nubra valley and thence to Yarkand via the Karakoram Pass and Suget Pass (in the Trans-Karakoram Tract)...
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Prefecture and Hotan Prefecture, to which it connects via the historic Karakoram Pass. Aksai Chin and Tibet are to the east, Kargil district to the west,...
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tripoint with India in the vicinity of the Siachen Glacier. It traverses the Karakoram Mountains, one of the world's tallest mountain ranges. Hunza District...
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Jianan Pass – a border pass in the Kugrang Valley tributary of Changchenmo is sometimes called "Hot Springs" . Pangong Range, a sub range of Karakoram Range...
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Range as below. Changchenmo Range - a subrange of Karakoram range. PP1 to PP3 — near the Karakoram Pass PP4 to PP9 — in Depsang plains. PP10 to PP13 including...
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Gasherbrum I (category Eight-thousanders of the Karakoram)
K5 (meaning the 5th peak of the Karakoram) by T.G. Montgomerie in 1856 when he first spotted the peaks of the Karakoram from more than 200 km away during...
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but easier, Karakoram Pass. "This was the notorious Sasser, not the highest but probably the most impressive and dangerous [of the passes along the caravan...
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a battle along this pass. He died in 1531 at Daulat Beg Oldi (meaning, where Daulat Beg died) at the foot of the Karakoram pass, after he was returning...
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was that their territory continued northeast from Point NJ9842 to the Karakoram Pass. As a result, both nations claimed the barren heights and the Siachen...
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part in an Island Peak Expedition in Nepal (20,600 ft) in 2004; the Karakoram Pass (18,300 ft) and Mt. Saltoro Kangri (20,150 ft) in 2006. She participated...
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Shenxianwan (redirect from Kisilkorum Pass)
location of a battalion military post of China to the north of the Karakoram Pass (as part of Pishan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang). It is in the...
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the steeper and higher Khunjerab Pass instead. Eventually, the new Karakoram Highway was built through the Khunjerab Pass. As of late 2010s, on the Pakistani...
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