Be sure to drink water, walk slowly, and snack on dry fruit while you drive. Locals swear by the apricots, as they may prevent the dizziness that comes from such large changes in altitude. Vegetarian lunch in the town of Sost Lunch in the Town of Sost The Khunjerab Pass is almost...
There are some roads, called “heavenly roads” by travelers. If you see a road map, these roads don’t appear to be different than every other road in the country. Their official names like G318, G219, G314 or N35 have nothing impressive. But the lands that these roads pass through ...
In this study, 10 km buffer of 263 km section of KKH from Gilgit city to Khunjerab pass was examined with an area of 4629 km2 (Fig. 1). Figure 1 Location map of the study area portraying 10 km buffer zone (red solid polygon) along the KKH (Gilgit city to Khunjerab section). ...
Mass movements in Hassan Abdal-Gilgit Section showed dependence on rainfall intensity, whereas, mass movements in Gilgit-Khunjrab Pass section are function of temperature and rainfall intensity.doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53485-5_60Sajid AliSascha Schneiderwind...
Fig. 1. Map of the Karakoram-Himalayan region and cross-border PAs. 2.2. Grouping of PAs in the KH region This research builds on existing studies of PA groupings in the region. First, we reviewed the transboundary landscapes contained in this region. Existing studies generally divide these ...
Based on measurements of prominent landslide and glacial slide sizes from the glaciers, these findings affirm that the area along the KKH is universally prone to landslides and glacial slides, as corroborated by SBAS data. Figure 5. Annual deformation rate map along the KKH. 3.3. SBAS-InSAR ...
(up to 7800 m) in the north. At Hispar pass, HG is connected to the third longest glacier in the world, the 65 km long Biafo Glacier, flowing to the East. Hispar glacier has a comparably tiny accumulation area that is not much wider than the tongue in the ablation region and is ...
The length of the time series is more important than the precision of the individual offset map. This is similar to the precision of deformation rate derived from GNSS, which depends on the length of the time series rather than the precision of each measurement from GNSS [22]. The average ...