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	Karakoram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Located in the mountainous regions of Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, the Karakoram is one of the great Himalayan mountain ranges, with many of the highest and most daunting peaks of the world.
		Karakoram means "fl gravel" in Turkish, as many of the surrounding glaciers are covered in rubble.
		The Karakoram and the Himalaya are important to Earth scientists for several reasons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karakoram (391 words)

	Encyclopedia: Karakoram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Masherbrum is a mountain in the Karakoram region of the Pakistani Himalaya.
		Rakaposhi is a mountain in the Karakoram region of the Pakistani Himalaya.
		Karakoram means "fl gravel" in Turkish, as many of the surrounding glaciers are covered in rubble.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Karakoram (1358 words)

	Recent Glacier Surges in the Karakoram Himalaya, South Central Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Karakoram, lying immediately north of the western part of the greater Himalaya, is the highest of the southwest central Asian mountain systems.
		Karakoram surges occur in a highly active tectonic zone with globally extreme rates of uplift and denudation [Searle, 1991].
		The Karakoram is of unusual interest and perhaps sensitive to climate change, since its glaciers lie within the variable influence of three major weather systems: the sub-Mediterranean regime of mainly winter, westerly storms; the summer monsoon; and the Tibetan anticyclone.
	www.agu.org /eos_elec/97106e.html (3544 words)

	* Askole Treks & Tours – Karakoram *
		The Karakoram, the ‘Black Gravel Mountains’, this great and splendid collection of gloomy brown and fl metamorphic rocks is the most unrivaled mountain range.
		The Karakoram contains also some of the greatest glacier system outside the polar region, the longest is all is Siachen, about 75 kms, Biafo, 68 kms, Baltoro, 62 kms, Batura, 58 kms, Hisper, 53 kms, Rimo, 45 kms, Chogo Lungma 47 kms, Panmah, 44 kms, Khurdopin, 41 kms and Saropo Laggo, 33kms in length.
		It is considered to extend from Wakhjir pass at the junctions of the pamirs and Karakoram to Khawak pass North of Kabul.
	askole.com /karakoram.html (964 words)

	Recent geodynamic processes in the Himalaya and the Karakoram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The interest in the environment of the Himalaya and the Karakoram is motivated by the unique theoretical problems which they present, as well as the practical need of the countries of this region to improve the living conditions of their inhabitants and, especially, to obtain information on their so-far-unknown, and probably rich mineral potential.
		It is known that the uplift of the Karakoram and the Himalaya during the Quaternary influences the distribution of flora and fauna as well as the migration of man.
		The pre-Quaternary geological and palaeogeographical development of the Himalaya and the Karakoram was characterized during the Miocene phase of the collision orogeny by formation of the nappe structures, granitoid bodies and cordillera-type ridges, followed during the Pliocene by the formation of rapidly eroded ridges accompanied by the contemporaneous deposition of molasses.
	www.natur.cuni.cz /~kfggsekr/pers/kalvoda/publ/recent.htm (3924 words)

	:: APMN \| mountains - The Karakoram ::
		The name Karakoram (fl gravel or stone) is derived from the Karakoram Pass (5,570m) which does not even cross the main range but lies further east.
		The high mountains are bounded by the Indus gorge and the Ladakh Range to the south, desolate plateau to the east, the Aghil Mountains to the north, and the Hindu Kush westwards beyond the Kurumbur River.
		Structurally, the Karakoram Range is composed of three units: the northern sedimentary zone, the central metamorphic zone with a plutonic core, and the southern volcanic schist zone.
	www.mtnforum.org /apmn/new_website/mountains/ch2_karakoram.php (549 words)

	Karakoram Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest international road in the world.
		It connects China to Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain ranges, through the Khunjerab Pass at a recently confirmed altitude of 4,693 metres (15,397 feet).
		Owing to the extremely sensitive state of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, the Karakoram highway has strategic and military importance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karakoram_highway (392 words)

	Ari's Base Camp - Mountains/Asia
		Karakoram (sometimes spelled Karakorum) lies in northeast Pakistan and Northern India, some 1500km west of Nepalase Himalayas and north of westernmost part of Himalaya, separated from it by the river of Indus.
		The mountains in Karakoram typically have sharp, angular form and many of icy peaks are surrounded by wild towers and spires.
		On the West Pamir borders on Hindu Kush, on the south on Karakoram and Himalaya and on the east of Pamier lies Kunlun Shan and on the North-East Tien Shan.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/asia.htm (9289 words)

	Pakistan Travel Web > Destinations > Mountains & Valleys > Karakoram Highway
		The Karakoram Highway or KKH in short, is the greatest wonder of modern Pakistan.
		The Karakoram and the Himalayas, the newest mountain ranges in the world, began to form some 5 million years ago when the Indian sub-continent drifted northwards and rammed into the Asian landmass.
		Karakoram is Turkish for 'crumbling rock'; an apt description for the giant, gray, snow-capped slagheaps that towers above the gorges which cut between them.
	travel.web.pk /destinations/mountains_valleys/karakorum_highway.asp (897 words)

	Karakoram '99: Climbing the Baltoro Glacier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1958, Fosco Mariani, the great Italian climber described the Karakoram as the "World's Greatest Museum in Shape and Form." The crown jewel of the Karakoram is K2 (8,611 meters), the world's second highest peak.
		Karakoram peaks have nicknames that evoke fear and passion: "Savage Mountain" for K2, "Killer Mountain" for Nanga Parbat (8,125 meters) "Shining Wall" for Gasherbrum IV (7,929 meters) and "Bride's Peak" for Chogolisa (7,665 meters), which is the feminine analog for Chogori, K2, its neighbor and wife in local folklore.
		There is no sleep as it grinds over the tortuous Karakoram highway to the blast of Urdu lovesongs and smell of thick diesel fumes dancing in the sky.
	classic.mountainzone.com /climbing/99/karakoram (1058 words)

	Welcome To Pakistan (A Tourist Paradise) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From the mighty stretches of the Karakorams in the North to the vast alluvial delta of the Indus River in the South, Pakistan remains a land of high adventure and nature.
		High Himalayas, Karakoram and the Hindukush ranges with their alpine meadows and permanent snow line, coniferous forests down the sub-mountain scrub, the vast Indus plain merging into the great desert, the coast line and wetlands, all offer a remarkably rich variety of vegetation and associated wildlife including avifauna, both endemic and migratory.
		The landscape of Pakistan ranges from lofty mountains in the north, the Karakoram and the Himalayas, through dissected plateaus to the rich alluvial plains of the Punjab.
	www.tourism.gov.pk (1573 words)

	Karakoram - Pictures of the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan
		The Karakoram mountains of Pakistan mark the western end of the greater Himalayan mountain chain and contain the greatest concentration of high peaks on earth as well as the largest expanse of glacial ice outside the polar regions.
		The winter snows from these mountains provide the meltwater for the mighty River Indus that cuts through the Karakoram from its source in Tibet.
		The Karakoram is a mountain desert; a vast region of barren rock and ice, where jeep roads cut through valley systems to remote villages still many days walk from the high mountains.
	www.adventurephotographs.com /karakoram/index.asp (103 words)

	Asia Pacific Mountain Profile
		The mountain ranges of the first two physiographic components are grouped into five units: the Karakoram, the Himalaya, north-east ranges, peninsular ranges, and north-western ranges (Figure 1 and Table 1).
		The word Himalaya is a compound of Sanskrit words, hima for snow and alaya for abode, referring to the lofty range between the Indo-Gangetic plain and the Tibetan plateau.
		It further designated Kashmir and the Karakoram as western; Himachal Pradesh, Kumaon, and most of Nepal as central; and east Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the NEFA as the eastern Himalaya.
	www.mtnforum.org /apmn/4,2(c).htm (4014 words)

	Remote Sensing with Radar
		The kinds of evidence available from the Karakoram are of broadest interest in relation to this line of inquiry and in comparison to the better-known examples.
		The Karakoram surging glaciers lie at much higher elevations than those of the Alaska-Yukon ranges, Svalbard, or Iceland, and are generally much steeper.
		The Karakoram is of unusual interest and perhaps sensitive to climate change to an unusual degree because its glaciers lie within the variable influence of three major weather systems: the "sub-Mediterranean" regime of mainly winter, westerly storms; the summer monsoon; and the Tibetan Plateau anticyclone.
	www.agu.org /sci_soc/eishewitt.html (2234 words)

	International Karakoram Project - Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		E., (1980) ‘Sedimentological analysis of glacial and proglacial debris: a framework for the study of Karakoram glaciers,’in Miller, K.J. (ed), (1984) Proceedings of the Conference concerning the International Karakoram Project, Vol.
		Goudie, A.S., (1981) ‘Salt efflorescences and salt weathering in the Hunza Valley, Karakoram mountains,’; Pakistan, in Miller, K.J. (ed), (1984) Proceedings of the Conference concerning the International Karakoram Project, Vol.
		Tahirkheli, R.A.K.; Jan, Q.M., (1981) ‘The geographical and geological domains of the Karakoram,’ in Miller, K.J. (ed), (1984) Proceedings of the Conference concerning the International Karakoram Project, Vol.
	www.rgs.org /templ.php?page=5intbib (2415 words)

	Karakoram '99: The Dispatches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1998, half of the registered fifty eight expeditions in Pakistan were cancelled due to Pakistan and India's nuclear tests in June, American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and retaliatory US cruise missiles strikes on Bin Laden's Afghanistan training camps.
		Americans came to the Karakorams this year in record numbers, ignoring a March 28 US State Department advisory to stay away from Pakistan.I was fortunate to meet them all while they were in route to their climbs.
		While families, parents and spouses anxiously read the morning headlines, their loved ones are probably safely curled up in their sleeping bag with a good novel and cup of Chai having the time of their lives.
	classic.mountainzone.com /climbing/99/karakoram/update-6-30.html (1485 words)

	Mountain Hardware: Balti Porters
		For climbers, the Karakorams are particularly rich in history and lore.
		Fellow Brit Sir Francis Younghusband, entered the Karakorams in 1887 via the Baltoro in only sheepskin boots, shocking the Balti villagers he met in Askole.
		The backbone of most climbing expeditions into the Karakoram are the Balti porters.
	www.ikat.org /greg.html (1350 words)

	Karakoram Range -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		segment of the Karakoram Range, extending southeastward for 230 miles (370 km) from the mouth of the Shyok River in northern Pakistan across northern India to the Tibetan (China) border.
		These are especially prominent in the northwest, where the Zaskar Mountains and the Ladakh and Karakoram ranges, all in Jammu and Kashmir, run to the northeast of the Great Himalayas.
		The peak, 28,238 feet (8,607 meters) high, is in the Karakoram Range of northern Jammu and Kashmir, near the border of Pakistan and China.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275232 (867 words)

	women climbers female climbing history pakistan karakoram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Davis began her Karakoram career in 1998 when she climbed Inshallah (VI 5.12 A1) on the southeast face of Shipton Spire with Kennan Harvey and the late Seth Shaw.
		Davis' second expedition to the Karakoram was in 2000, when she gained access to the previously closed military zone of the Kondus Valley, which borders the Siachen Glacier.
		Even though the achievements of Davis and Bullock Workman lie a century apart, and despite the differences in the climbs they've pursued, their impetus for exploration is much the same.
	www.climbing.com /current/wmnkarakrm/index4.html (879 words)

	Karakoram Highway Photo Essay
		Then the true Karakoram begin to loom, first on your left, and then as the road swings east into the Hunza valleys a dramatic curtain of rock is swept away and on your right the Rakaposhi Range rips into view.
		Their bright cheery faces and pleasant demeanor are a real testimony to the character needed to survive in these hardscrabble, barren valleys....also they are a welcome tonic to the blank stares and rock volleys further south.
		Overall I rate the Karakoram (for its entire length, from near Mansehra to Khunjerab pass), as a seven on a scale of ten.
	www.chosin.com /karak.html (2012 words)

	Bibilography: Secondary Readings Karakoram Hydrology
		Kreutzmann, H. (1993) Challenges and responses in the Karakoram socioeconomic transformation in Hunza.
		Stoliczka, F. (1866) Geological sections across the Himalayan Mountains, From Wangtubridge on the river Sutlej to Sungdo on the Indus: with an account on the formations in Spiti, accompanied by a revision of all known fossils from that districts.
		Visser, C. (1934) The Karakoram and Turkestan Expedition of 1929-1930.
	nsidc.org /pubs/gd/29/2.8.html (1737 words)

	Karakoram Treks & Tours - contact us
		Karakoram Treks And Tours, Established in 1978, is the first company to organize treks and mountaineering expeditions in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
		Whether you choose gentle trekking or expedition climbing, jeep safari in the Karakoram, Himalayan and Hindukush ranges, cultural and sightseeing tours, pony treks, hunting, mountain biking, the expertise, quality of service and the sheer enthusiasm of all those involved with us will ensure that you have a holiday of a lifetime.
		We are offering tours, treks and mountaineering expeditions to Himalayas, Hindukush and Karakorams spread over an area of 2700 square miles of Pakistan's northern parts stretching from Chitral, Gilgit, Hunza and Skardu; and Xingjian province of China.
	karakurum.com.pk (442 words)

	Karakoram Highway -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is situated in the Karakoram Range in a narrow valley on the Gilgit River at its confluence with the Hunza River and about 20 miles (32 km) upstream from its confluence with the Indus River.
		The town is located in the remote valley of the upper Indus River at an elevation of 11,550 feet (3,520 metres), surrounded by the towering peaks of the Ladakh Range (a southeastern extension of the Karakoram Range).
		One of the highest mountain systems in the world, the Karakoram Range of Central Asia extends southeastward some 300 miles (480 kilometers) from the easternmost part of Afghanistan.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044688 (887 words)

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