Pakistan: Hindu Kush Adventure Overview Pakistan is a country close to our hearts…and for good reason. Home to some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the world, thriving cities, colourful markets and warm hospitality, a trip to this part of the world is bound to excite even th...
It is the upper valley of the Swat River, which rises in the Hindu Kush range. The capital of Swat is Saidu Sharif, but the main town in the Swat valley is Mingora. With high mountains, green meadows, and clear lakes, it is a place of great natural beauty that used to known as ...
Hindu Kush Heights Mastuj, Mastuj Our rating: Superior | Property style: Guesthouse Made up of 6 cosy chalets in the orchard of the old fort, this is the best accommodation in Mastuj. The setting on the side of a hill provides fantastic views over the town and the valley....
The Cenozoic Hindu Kush–Pamir orogenic system has an arcuate shape in map view, especially the highly curved Pamir orogen (Burtman and Molnar, 1993; Negredo et al., 2007; Sobel et al., 2013). All models conducted in this study produce curved orogens and subduction zones in the Pamir reg...
This chapter explores that the study of Pleistocene glaciation in the Hindu Kush has been hampered by remote, difficult terrain, and political instability that has limited or prevented access to most of the key areas of the range. Proposed chronologies are based on inferred correlations with ...
District Shangla is located at western extremities of the Himalayan and eastern Hindu Kush Mountain series generally termed as Hindu-Himalayas, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Topographically, it consists of narrow valleys and high mountains covered by dense forest at elevation range fr...
Seismicity, earthquake mechanisms and tectonics along the Himalayan mountain range and vicinity A near-vertical orientation of the axes of tension in the solutions for two earthquakes in the Hindu Kush region is consistent with the sinking of a ... U Chandra - 《Physics of the Earth & Planetary...
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...
Air pollution in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is on the rise and regional air quality has worsened in the past two decades, with the adjacent Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) having become one of the most polluted regions in the world. The causes include rapid urbanization and population growth,...
Air pollution has large impacts on the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), affecting not just the health of people and ecosystems, but also climate, the cryosphere, monsoon patterns, water availability, agriculture, and incomes (established but incomplete). Altho