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Hindu Kush Heights Chitral, Chitral Our rating: Superior | Property style: Hotel This is one of Wild Frontiers favourite hotels in the world! By far the best hotel in Chitral, Hindu Kush Heights is in a class of its own… the loving care and attention which has gone into thi...
The Hindukush-Himalayan (HKH) region, known for its eco-environmental importance, has been witnessing transformations in recent years governed by factors such as climate variability, land use shifts, and population growth. These changes have profound implications for regional sustainability, water resourc...
In the mountains of the Hindu Kush, where you will be travelling at heights in access of 3,000 metres even in the middle of summer it can turn bitter with the occasional snow flurries falling. Temperatures in the Islamabad and the plains can be considerably higher than the mounta...
: The arts and crafts of the Swat Valley: living traditions in the Hindu Kush. 180 pp. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1991. £19.95.Jaya Jaitly (ed.): Crafts of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Photographed by Kamal Sahai. 299 pp. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd.; Middleton, NJ...
In the Hindukush, Karakoram and Himalaya (HKH) region of Pakistan, many glaciological variables are still not known due to the remoteness and harsh weather conditions of the area. A remote sensing technique is therefore applied to map the snow zonation in the HKH region. Landsat 7 ETM+ data...
A transition fault is inferred in the region between the Hindu Kush and the Pamir which regulates the opposing directions of motion of the Indian and Eurasian plates. Keywords: Pamir-Hindu Kush, Seismicity, Stress field, Double-sided subduction, Low-velocity body References [1] Anderson, E....
This chapter critically reviews the existing knowledge on livelihoods, poverty, and vulnerability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). Development in mountain areas and the practices of people in these areas are uniquely conditioned by distinct characteristics that we term “mountain specificities”. Some...
The Hindu Kush in Afghanistan, located at the western margin of the India-Asia collision zone (Fig. 1), is one of the few places where an ongoing detachment of lithosphere in a continental setting has been proposed, as frequent seismicity occurs at depths that are unusual for an ...
Hindu KushThe Hindu Kush is a mountain range, a spur running southwest off the Pamir Knot, which is a large clump of high ground at the western end of the Himalayas.Map Directions Satellite Photo MapWikivoyage Wikipedia Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain....