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Karakoram

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The Karakoram, or Karakorum is a large mountain range spanning the borders of Pakistan, India, and China, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. [1]

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Aksai Chin

Aksai Chin (ﺋﺎﻗﺴﺎﻱ ﭼﯩﻦ;Hindi-अक्साई चिन) is a disputed border area between China and India.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Badakhshan Province

Badakhshan Province (بدخشان ولایت Badaxšān wilāyat and Velâyat-e Badakhšân) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the farthest northeastern part of the country between Tajikistan and northern Pakistan.

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Baintha Brakk

Baintha Brakk (بائنتھا براک) or The Ogre is a steep, craggy mountain, high, in the Panmah Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range.

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Balti people

The Balti are an ethnic group of Tibetan descent with Dardic admixture who live in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Kargil region of India.

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Baltoro Glacier

The Baltoro Glacier, at in length, is one of the longest glaciers outside the polar regions.

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Baltoro Muztagh

The Baltoro Muztagh (بلتورو موز تاغ) is a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range, in Baltistan region of the Gilgit-Baltistan, northmost political entity of Pakistan; and in Xinjiang, China and the region is also claimed by India.

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Batura II

Batura II (بتورا ۲), also known as Hunza Kunji or Peak 31, is a peak in the Batura Muztagh, which is the westernmost subrange of the Karakoram range.

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Batura III

Batura III (بتورا 3), also known as Batura Muztagh III, is a peak in Batura Muztagh of Pakistan, which is the westernmost subrange of the Karakoram range.

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Batura Muztagh

The Batura Muztagh mountains are a sub-range of the Karakoram mountain range.

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Batura Sar

Batura Sar (بتورا سر), also referred to as Batura I, is the 25th highest mountain on earth and the 10th highest in Pakistan.

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Biafo Glacier

The Biafo Glacier (بیافو گلیشیر) is a long glacier in the Karakoram Mountains of Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir which meets the long Hispar Glacier at an altitude of at Hispar La (Pass) to create the world's longest glacial system outside the polar regions.

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Broad Peak

Broad Peak (بروڈ پیک) is the 12th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Chandra Prakash Kala

Chandra Prakash Kala is an Indian ecologist and professor.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chogolisa

Chogolisa (چوگولیزا from Chogo Ling Sa; literally: Great Hunt) is a mountain in the Karakoram region of Pakistan.

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Diran

Diran(دیرن)is a mountain in the Karakoram range in Nagar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Distaghil Sar

Disteghil Sar or Distaghil Sar (دستاغل سر) is the highest mountain in the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range, in Gilgit-Baltistan, which is part of the Kashmir region that is disputed by India and Pakistan.

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Eight-thousander

The eight-thousanders are the 14 independentIn making any "highest mountains" list, one needs to use a criterion to exclude subpeaks and only list independent mountains.

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Francis Younghusband

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

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Gasherbrum I

Gasherbrum I (گاشر برم -1), surveyed as K5 and also known as Hidden Peak, is the 11th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum II (گاشر برم -2); surveyed as K4, is the 13th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Gasherbrum III

Gasherbrum III (گاشر برم -3), surveyed as K3a, is a summit in the Gasherbrum massif of the Baltoro Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram on the border between Xinjiang, China and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Gasherbrum IV

Gasherbrum IV (گاشر برم -4), surveyed as K3, is the 17th highest mountain on Earth and the 6th highest in Pakistan.

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Gasherbrum V

Gasherbrum V (گاشربرم - 5) is a mountain in the Gasherbrum massif, located in the Karakoram range of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Geology of the Himalaya

The geology of the Himalaya is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of modern plate tectonic forces.

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George Cockerill (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Sir George Kynaston Cockerill, (13 August 1867 – 19 April 1957) was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, and commonly as Lord Curzon, was a British Conservative statesman.

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George W. Hayward

George Jonas Whitaker Hayward (1839–1870) was a well known nineteenth-century English explorer.

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Gilgit District

Gilgit District (ضلع گلگت) is one of the districts of the Gilgit–Baltistan territory in northern Pakistan.

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Gilgit River

Gilgit River is a tributary of the Indus River, and flows past the town of Gilgit.

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Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is the northernmost administrative territory in Pakistan.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Godwin-Austen Glacier

The Godwin-Austen Glacier is a glacier in the Karakoram, close to K2 in the Gilgit–Baltistan Ghulam Kashmir.

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Great Trigonometrical Survey

The Great Trigonometrical Survey was a project which aimed to measure the entire Indian subcontinent with scientific precision.

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Greater Ranges

The Greater Ranges comprise the high mountain ranges of Asia.

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Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson (born December 27, 1957) is an American professional speaker, writer, veteran, and former mountaineer.

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Haramosh Peak

Haramosh Peak (also known as Haramosh or Peak 58) is a mountain located in the Karakoram range of the Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan.

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Harmukh

Harmukh (also known as Mount Haramukh or Harmukh mountain) is a mountain with a peak elevation of, in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush, also known in Ancient Greek as the Caucasus Indicus (Καύκασος Ινδικός) or Paropamisadae (Παροπαμισάδαι), in Pashto and Persian as, Hindu Kush is an mountain range that stretches near the Afghan-Pakistan border,, Quote: "The Hindu Kush mountains run along the Afghan border with the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan".

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Hispar Muztagh

Hispar Muztagh is a sub-range of the Karakoram mountain range.

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Hunza River

Hunza River (دریائے ہنزہ) is the principal river of Hunza in Gilgit–Baltistan,Pakistan.

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Hunza Valley

Hunza (Burushaski: ہنزو, Wakhi, and ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice cap

An ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km2 of land area (usually covering a highland area).

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indus River

The Indus River (also called the Sindhū) is one of the longest rivers in Asia.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.

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K12 (mountain)

Surveyed as K12, this mountain is in the Saltoro Muztagh which is a subrange of the Karakoram range in the Siachen region, near Jammu and Kashmir.

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K2

K2 (کے ٹو), also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori (Balti and چھوغوری),, at above sea level, is the second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest, at.

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K6 (mountain)

Surveyed as K6, but also known as Baltistan Peak.

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Kanjut Sar

Kanjut Sar or Kunjudh Sar as pronounced in "Wakhi" is a mountain located in the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range.

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Karakash River

The Karakash or Black Jade River, also spelled Karakax, is a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China that originates in the disputed Aksai Chin region.

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Karakoram Highway

The N-35 or National Highway 35 (قومی شاہراہ 35), known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway (شاہراہ قراقرم) and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314.

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Karakoram Pass

The Karakoram Pass (क़राक़रम दर्रा) is a mountain pass between India and China in the Karakoram Range.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Kenneth Mason (geographer)

Lieut-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC (10 September 1887 – 2 June 1976) was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford.

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Khunjerab Pass

Khunjerab Pass or (elevation) is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains in a strategic position on the northern border of the Pakistani region of Gilgit–Baltistan Hunza – Nagar District on the southwest border of the Xinjiang region of China.

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Khunyang Chhish

Khunyang Chhish or Kunyang Chhish (کنیانگ چش)is the second-highest mountain in the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan.

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Kilik Pass

The Kilik Pass (elevation), to the west of Mintaka Pass is a high mountain pass in the Karakorum Mountains between Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan and Xinjiang in China.

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Kim (novel)

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.

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Kunlun Mountains

The Kunlun Mountains (Хөндлөн Уулс, Khöndlön Uuls) are one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending more than.

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Ladakh

Ladakh ("land of high passes") is a region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Kunlun mountain range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

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List of highest mountains on Earth

There are at least 109 mountains on Earth with elevations greater than above sea level.

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List of mountain ranges

This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.

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Malubiting

Malubiting (مالونیتنگ); also known as Malubiting West) is the second highest peak in the Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains, a subrange of the Karakoram range of Pakistan.

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Mamostong Kangri

Surveyed as K35, Mamostong Kangri or Mamostang Kangri is the highest peak in the remote Rimo Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range in Jammu and Kashmir state of India near its border with China.

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Marcel Ichac

Marcel Ichac (22 October 1906 - 9 April 1994) was a French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director.

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Masherbrum

Masherbrum (ما شربرم; formerly known as K1) is located in the Ghanche District, Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan.

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Masherbrum Mountains

The Masherbrum Mountains (ما شربرم پہاڑیاں) are a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range, in Ghanche District, Baltistan region of the Gilgit-Baltistan province in northern Pakistan.

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Mintaka Pass

The Mintaka Pass or Mingteke Pass or Mintika Pass() is a mountain pass in the Karakorum Mountains, between Pakistan and Xinjiang in China.

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Momhil Sar

Momhil Sar (مومہل سر), or Mumhail Sar as pronounced in Wakhi is at above sea level, is the 64th highest mountain peak in the world.

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Mount Imeon

Mount Imeon is an ancient name for the Central Asian complex of mountain ranges comprising the present Hindu Kush, Pamir and Tian Shan, extending from the Zagros Mountains in the southwest to the Altay Mountains in the northeast, and linked to the Kunlun, Karakoram and Himalayas to the southeast.

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Mustagh Pass

The Mustagh Pass or Muztagh Pass is a pass across the Baltoro Muztagh range in the Karakorams which includes K2, the world's second highest mountain.

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Mustansar Hussain Tarar

Mustansar Hussain Tarar (مستنصر حسين تارڑ) (born 1 March 1939) is a Pakistani author, travel enthusiast, writer, novelist, columnist, TV host and former actor.

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Muztagh Tower

Muztagh Tower (موز تاغ ٹاور), also: Mustagh Tower; Muztagh: ice tower), is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh, part of the Karakoram range in Baltistan on the border of the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. It stands between the basins of the Baltoro and Sarpo Laggo glaciers.

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Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat (Urdu), locally known as Diamer, is the ninth highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Mountains, or the Pamirs, are a mountain range in Central Asia at the junction of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Suleman and Hindu Raj ranges.

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Panmah Muztagh

The Panmah Muztagh is a subrange of the Karakoram range, in Shigar, a district of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Passu Sar

Passu Sar (پسو سر; or Passu Sar, Passu I) is a mountain peak in the Batura Muztagh, a sub-range of the Karakoram mountain range, located in the Gilgit District of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, west of the Hunza Valley.

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Patrick French

Patrick French (born 1966) is a British writer, historian and academician.

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Puranas

The Puranas (singular: पुराण), are ancient Hindu texts eulogizing various deities, primarily the divine Trimurti God in Hinduism through divine stories.

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Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi (راکاپوشی), is a mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in Northern Pakistan.

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Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains

The Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains are a subrange of the Karakoram range.

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Rimo Muztagh

The Rimo Muztagh is one of the most remote subranges of the Karakoram range.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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Saltoro Kangri

Saltoro Kangri is the highest peak of the Saltoro Mountains, also known as the Saltoro Range, which is a part of the Karakoram.

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Saltoro Mountains

The Saltoro Mountains (سلسلہ کوہ سالتورو) are a subrange of the Karakoram Range.

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Saser Kangri

Saser Kangri (or Sasir Kangri) is a mountain in India.

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Saser Muztagh

The Saser Muztagh is the easternmost subrange of the Karakoram range, in the Ladakh region of India.

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Sasser Pass

Saser Pass, Saser La, or Sasser Pass (el.) is a high mountain pass in Ladakh and India on the ancient summer caravan route from Leh in Ladakh to Yarkand in the Tarim Basin.

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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman

is a Japanese animated franchise about a five-member superhero team created by Tatsuo Yoshida and produced by Tatsunoko Productions.

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Shimshal

Shimshal شمشال (in Urdu) is a village located in Gojal Tehsil of Hunza District, in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan formerly known as Northern Areas of Pakistan.

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Shyok River

The Shyok River (دریائے شیوک; literally "The River of Death" in Yarkandi Uyghur) flows through northern Ladakh in India and the Ghangche District of Gilgit–Baltistan of Pakistan spanning some.

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Sia Kangri

Sia Kangri (7,442 m, 24,370 ft) is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh in the Karakoram.

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Siachen Glacier

The Siachen Glacier (Hindi: सियाचिन ग्लेशियर, Urdu: سیاچن گلیشیر) is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas at about, just northeast of the point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends.

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Siachen Muztagh

The Siachen Muztagh is a remote subrange of the eastern Karakoram Range.

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Skil Brum

Skil Brum (سکل برم), or Skilbrum, is a mountain in the Karakoram range in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, approximately 9 km (5 mi) west-southwest of K2.

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South Ghujerab Mountains

The South Ghujerab Mountains are a subrange of the Karakoram range in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.

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Spantik-Sosbun Mountains

The Spantik-Sosbun Mountains are a subrange of the Karakoram range in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan (or; Тоҷикистон), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhuriyi Tojikiston), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated population of million people as of, and an area of.

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Tarim Basin

The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in northwest China occupying an area of about.

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Thomas George Montgomerie

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas George Montgomerie FRS (1830–1878) was a British surveyor who participated in the Great Trigonometric Survey of India as a lieutenant in the 1850s.

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Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known in China as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau or Himalayan Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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Trango Towers

The Trango Towers (ٹرینگو ٹاورز) are a family of rock towers situated in Gilgit-Baltistan, in the north of Pakistan.

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Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and West Asia all the way to North Asia (particularly in Siberia) and East Asia (including the Far East).

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Ultar

Ultar Sar (also Ultar, Ultar II, Bojohagur Duanasir II) is the southeasternmost major peak of the Batura Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" film festivals, alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.

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Wakhan Corridor

The Wakhan Corridor (واخان دهلېز Wāxān Dahléz, دالان واخان) is a narrow strip of territory in northeastern Afghanistan that extends to China and separates Tajikistan from Pakistan.

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William Moorcroft (explorer)

William Moorcroft (1767 – 27 August 1825) was an English explorer employed by the East India Company.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.

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Yarkand River

The Yarkand River is a river in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China.

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Yarkant County

Yarkant County or Yeken County (lit. Cliff cityP. Lurje, “”, Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition) is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan desert in the Tarim Basin.

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Yengisogat

The Yengisogat range (音苏盖提), also known as the Wesm Mountains, is a Chinese subrange of the Karakoram mountain range.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram

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