Incredible History of the Karakoram Range Traveling on Pakistan’s Karakoram highway, you can watch as the old Silk Road route twists and climbs beside you. The scene is a harrowing and constant tribute to the incredible history of this place. Video, and a Map: To get your bearings before...
Borneman NL, Hodges KV, van Soest MC, Bohon W, Wartho J-A, Cronk SS, Ahmad T (2015) Age and structure of the Shyok suture in the Ladakh region of northwestern India: implications for slip on the Karakoram fault system. Tectonics 34:2011–2033.https://doi.org/10.1002/2015TC003933 A...
The physical, social, and environmental vulnerabilities of the at-risk elements were evaluated using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and integrated with the hazard data to develop a risk map. The study identified the areas, infrastructure and settlements susceptible to GLOF hazard to support ...
but the mountain slopes on its both side are really awesome- rocky, steep and rugged. The northwestern slopes belong to Chakragil Range of Pamir, and the southeastern- to Kongur Range,
Two treks in the heart of the Karakoram Range are intended for good walkers. “A hike for 13 days along the Baltoro glacier to the famous Concordia site, then on to the base camp of K2, the most beautiful mountain in the world according to mountaineers, and then to Gondogoro La (5 585...
Like The Geology of the Higher Himalaya (Sinha, 1989) the Karakoram volume combines a black-and-white book with a coloured map, boxed 'coffee-table' style with a mountain view on the cover. Both are published by John Wiley and both cost well over 100. There the similarity ends. The ...
Under a range of climate change scenarios, the run-off of glacier meltwater in the Himalaya and Karakoram is likely to peak in the next few decades. After glacial run-off peaks, run-off will decline as the glaciers in both mountain ranges shrink, although the magnitude and timing of the ...
In the throne room of the mountain gods: crossing the Gondogoro La Pass By around 5am, the sun was coming up and the surrounding peaks were bathed in light. As I was leading, I often found myself alone near the top of the pass. At times, I felt like the only man on the mountain...
Generalized tectonic map of north Pakistan (overlaid on a hill-shade terrain model) showing regional faults/sutures in the western Himalaya, Kohistan, and Karakoram. The political boundaries are shown with thin green lines. The black square in the inset figure (bottom right) shows the geographic...
The upper right map shows the location of Batura Glacier, the Karakoram Mountain region, and Indus Basin. The background of the inset map is from Google Earth satellite images. The Karakoram boundary is based on the work by Rankl et al.8. The watershed of Indus is extracted in ArcGIS by...