Citations:Karakoram

English citations of Karakoram

Mountains edit

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1912, Curtis's Botanical Magazine‎^[1], volume 8, page 8441:
The Labiate genus Perovskia, to which the plant here figured belongs, is a somewhat anomalous one, comprising four species, two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan, and a fourth, the one now depicted, which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the Western Himalaya to Western Tibet. In the Karakoram Range it is met with at elevations up to 10,000 feet above sea level.
1912, Filippo De Filippi, “Introduction”, in Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909‎^[2], New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page xvii:
To reach the Karakoram the expedition had to cross the vast mountainous region which lies between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan, taking a different route each way.
1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary‎^[3], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 343:
A little farther down we saw three tiny beehive stone huts, the place being called Palo, which is obviously a corruption of the Chinese p’ai-lou, and may mean that at some time in the past the Chinese advanced a border post thus far, claiming a frontier beyond the Karakoram.
2014 October 22, Wolfgang Rattay, “The Savage Mountain”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 02 July 2017‎^[5]:
Askole is home to about 500 people in the Shigar Valley and the starting point into the wilderness of the Karakoram mountains in northern Pakistan.
2018 August 2, “Summit attempts on Gasherbrum IV abandoned”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[6], archived from the original on November 29, 2020‎^[7]:
The weather conditions in the Karakoram remain difficult. German David Göttler and Italian Herve Barmasse had to give up their attempt on the almost-eight-thousander Gasherbrum IV. The two had originally planned to first climb the Southwest Face of the 7,932-meter-high mountain in the Karakoram for the first time.
2020 July 7, AIJAZ HUSSAIN, EMILY SCHMALL, SAM MCNEIL, “Indian, Chinese soldiers move away from site of deadly clash”, in AP News‎^[8], archived from the original on 18 May 2022‎^[9]:
The two sides also appeared to have dismantled recent construction along the river valley high in the Karakoram mountains, satellite images showed.

Highway edit

Note: The word 'Karakoram' is often used with reference to an important highway associated with the mountain range- see Karakoram Highway.

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1998, “Pakistan”, in Saul B. Cohen, editor, The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 2340–2341:
The Karakoram Highway linking Pakistan and China remains a strategic route.
1998, John S. King, Bradley Mayhew, Karakoram Highway (Lonely Planet)‎^[11], 3rd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
The Karakoram Highway (KKH) connects the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar with Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, via the 4730m Khunjerab Pass, the semi-mythical Hunza Valley and the trading post of Gilgit.
2009, Greg Mortenson, “Introduction”, in Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace through Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan‎^[12], Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:
In September of 2008, a woman with piercing green eyes named Nasreen Baig embarked on an arduous journey from her home in the tiny Pakistani village of Zuudkhan south along the Indus River and down the precipitous Karakoram Highway to the bustling city of Rawalpindi.
2013 October 15, “World's most dangerous roads”, in USA Today‎^[13], archived from the original on 10 November 2013:
The Karakoram Highway, which links China and Pakistan over the 15,400-foot Khunjerab Pass, winds through some spectacular gorges along the route of the old Silk Road. The international "Friendship Highway," which isn't even paved on the Pakistani side, is so unstable and prone to flash floods that almost 900 workers died during its construction, mostly crushed by landslides.
2017 May 11, “8 dead, 20 injured after moderate quake in far western China”, in AP News‎^[14], archived from the original on 10 October 2022:
The morning quake struck in Taxkorgan county, a remote mountainous area that borders Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan in China’s Xinjiang region. […]
The county has a population of around 33,000, and is notable for being a stop on the Karakoram Highway, built along the ancient Silk Road connecting China’s far western city of Kashgar to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
2017 November 3, Rina Saeed Khan, “Pakistan’s glaciers face new threat: Highway’s black carbon”, in Reuters‎^[15], archived from the original on 17 May 2022, APAC:
This border outpost on the Karakoram Highway, slashed through the glacier-strewn Karakoram mountains to join China and Pakistan by road, boasts a new world record: It has the world’s highest automated bank teller machine.
2019 July 12, “Tour de Impossible? Pakistan hosts 'world's toughest cycle race'”, in France 24‎^[16], archived from the original on 12 July 2019:
The cyclists' tyres swallow up the asphalt of the Karakoram Highway, one of the highest paved roads in the world.
Named after the Karakoram mountain range -- just one of the ranges in Gilgit -- the road passes through an extraordinary landscape.