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<h2 id="name">Name</h2> <p>Karakoram is a <a href="/facts/Turkic_languages/RXqsmfgh">Turkic</a> term meaning <i>black gravel</i>. The Central Asian traders originally applied the name to the <a href="/facts/Karakoram_Pass/EKpK693N">Karakoram Pass</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> Early European travellers, including <a href="/facts/William_Moorcroft_(explorer)/Gr9KJaHb">William Moorcroft</a> and <a href="/facts/George_W._Hayward/U3JH3npu">George Hayward</a>, started using the term for the range of mountains west of the pass, although they also used the term Muztagh (meaning, "Ice Mountain") for the range now known as Karakoram.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> Later terminology was influenced by the <a href="/facts/Great_Trigonometric_Survey_of_India/nkxNE8Se">Survey of India</a>, whose surveyor <a href="/facts/Thomas_Montgomerie/XnvsLxDM">Thomas Montgomerie</a> in the 1850s gave the labels K1 to K6 (K for Karakoram) to six high mountains visible from his station at <a href="/facts/Mount_Haramukh/V7wUwMW1">Mount Haramukh</a> in <a href="/facts/Kashmir_Valley/uWtAwEdx">Kashmir Valley</a>, codes extended further up to more than thirty. </p><p>In traditional Indian geography the mountains were known as Krishnagiri (black mountains), <i>Kanhagiri</i> and <i>Kanheri</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="exploration">Exploration</h2> <p>Due to its altitude and ruggedness, the Karakoram is much less inhabited than parts of the <a href="/facts/Himalayas/eRSf0yyE">Himalayas</a> further east. European explorers first visited early in the 19th century, followed by <a href="/facts/Great_Trigonometrical_Survey/nkxNE8Se">British surveyors</a> starting in 1856. </p><p>The <a href="/facts/Muztagh_Pass/GKbCxfA2">Muztagh Pass</a> was crossed in 1887 by the expedition of Colonel <a href="/facts/Francis_Younghusband/7xfUQI7d">Francis Younghusband</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> and the valleys above the <a href="/facts/Hunza_River/o0S2ERCK">Hunza River</a> were explored by General Sir <a href="/facts/George_Cockerill_(British_Army_officer)/3sWpagm1">George K. Cockerill</a> in 1892. Explorations in the 1910s and 1920s established most of the geography of the region. </p><p>The name Karakoram was used in the early 20th century, for example by <a href="/facts/Kenneth_Mason_(geographer)/zD0aKoV2">Kenneth Mason</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> for the range now known as the <a href="/facts/Baltoro_Muztagh/7JPuovG5">Baltoro Muztagh</a>. The term is now used to refer to the entire range from the <a href="/facts/Batura_Muztagh/BHXscPgF">Batura Muztagh</a> above <a href="/facts/Hunza_Valley/cuqurnUm">Hunza</a> in the west to the <a href="/facts/Saser_Muztagh/2MwjfPf4">Saser Muztagh</a> in the bend of the <a href="/facts/Shyok_River/ULLqbNol">Shyok River</a> in the east. </p> <p>Floral surveys were carried out in the Shyok River catchment and from Panamik to Turtuk village by <a href="/facts/Chandra_Prakash_Kala/aAcrR3hT">Chandra Prakash Kala</a> during 1999 and 2000.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="geology-and-glaciers">Geology and glaciers</h2> <p>The Karakoram is in one of the world's most geologically active areas, at the <a href="/facts/Geology_of_the_Himalaya/aqtb4uDx">plate boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> A significant part, somewhere between 28 and 50 percent, of the Karakoram Range is glaciated covering an area of more than 15,000 square kilometres or 5,800 square miles,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> compared to between 8 and 12 percent of the Himalaya and 2.2 percent of the <a href="/facts/Alps/Q3zdQId4">Alps</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> Mountain <a href="/facts/Glacier/8GrKVUSS">glaciers</a> may serve as an indicator of climate change, advancing and receding with long-term changes in temperature and precipitation. The Karakoram glaciers are slightly retreating,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> unlike the Himalayas where glaciers are losing mass at significantly higher rate, many Karakoram glaciers are covered in a layer of rubble which insulates the ice from the warmth of the sun.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> Where there is no such insulation, the rate of retreat is high.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Siachen_Glacier/TRbrheXJ">Siachen Glacier</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Baltoro_Glacier/D2cWm0vI">Baltoro Glacier</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Hispar_Glacier/r6Q3fywS">Hispar Glacier</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Batura_Glacier/RFUFNlE5">Batura Glacier</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Biafo_Glacier/lfAqw8IW">Biafo Glacier</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Chogo_Lungma_Glacier/KHcBJk2U">Chogo Lungma Glacier</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Yinsugaiti_Glacier/1xRBTDCc">Yinsugaiti Glacier</a></li></ul> <h3>Ice Age</h3> <p>In the last <a href="/facts/Ice_age/agSMvAgX">ice age</a>, a <a href="/facts/Ice_cap/7c6AhKeT">connected series of glaciers</a> stretched from western <a href="/facts/Tibet/NQChzGo9">Tibet</a> to <a href="/facts/Nanga_Parbat/LGGzqTDH">Nanga Parbat</a>, and from the <a href="/facts/Tarim_basin/GPB9puNb">Tarim basin</a> to the <a href="/facts/Gilgit_District/MdcF8pGD">Gilgit District</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> To the south, the <a href="/facts/Indus_Valley/7vTRHA4t">Indus glacier</a> was the main valley glacier, which flowed 120 kilometres (75 mi) down from <a href="/facts/Nanga_Parbat/LGGzqTDH">Nanga Parbat</a> massif to 870 metres (2,850 ft) elevation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> In the north, the Karakoram glaciers joined those from the <a href="/facts/Kunlun_Mountains/3AnKdWBg">Kunlun Mountains</a> and flowed down to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in the Tarim basin.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> </p><p>While the current valley glaciers in the Karakoram reach a maximum length of 76 kilometres (47 mi), several of the ice-age valley glacier branches and main valley glaciers, had lengths up to 700 kilometres (430 mi). During the Ice Age, the glacier snowline was about 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) lower than today.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="highest-peaks">Highest peaks</h2> <p>Here is a list for the highest peaks of the Karakoram. Included are some of the mountains named with a K code, the most famous of which is the <a href="/facts/K2_(mountain)/7zeyrQ0s">K2 (mountain)</a>. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Mountain</th><th>Height<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a></th><th><a href="/facts/List_of_highest_mountains_on_Earth/uanjrrp1">Ranked</a></th><th>K code</th><th>Remark</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/K2/7zeyrQ0s">K2</a></td><td>8,611 metres (28,251 ft)</td><td>2</td><td>K2</td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a> at the head of the Godwin-Austen Glacier</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Gasherbrum_I/8MjqTbwt">Gasherbrum I</a></td><td>8,080 metres (26,510 ft)</td><td>11</td><td>K5</td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Broad_Peak/jWlxb17J">Broad Peak</a></td><td>8,051 metres (26,414 ft)</td><td>12</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Gasherbrum_II/MBIdJDVy">Gasherbrum II</a></td><td>8,034 metres (26,358 ft)</td><td>13</td><td>K4</td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Gasherbrum_III/A0KtJRu0">Gasherbrum III</a></td><td>7,952 metres (26,089 ft)</td><td></td><td>K3a</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>, not on world highest list</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Gasherbrum_IV/e0sA2SV8">Gasherbrum IV</a></td><td>7,925 metres (26,001 ft)</td><td>17</td><td>K3</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Distaghil_Sar/2jVYkkRj">Distaghil Sar</a></td><td>7,885 metres (25,869 ft)</td><td>19</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Kunyang_Chhish/qBptvA0j">Kunyang Chhish</a></td><td>7,852 metres (25,761 ft)</td><td>21</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Masherbrum_I/V3LMm165">Masherbrum I</a></td><td>7,821 metres (25,659 ft)</td><td>22</td><td>K1</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Batura_I/p4R5uNUE">Batura I</a></td><td>7,795 metres (25,574 ft)</td><td>25</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Rakaposhi/Ckc2Wrgy">Rakaposhi</a></td><td>7,788 metres (25,551 ft)</td><td>26</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Batura_II/zNIVp6mE">Batura II</a></td><td>7,762 metres (25,466 ft)</td><td></td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>, not on world highest list</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Kanjut_Sar/6S7ypnbv">Kanjut Sar</a></td><td>7,760 metres (25,460 ft)</td><td>28</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Saltoro_Kangri/a773UjzM">Saltoro Kangri</a> I</td><td>7,742 metres (25,400 ft)</td><td>31</td><td>K10</td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Batura_III/SSm357aK">Batura III</a></td><td>7,729 metres (25,358 ft)</td><td></td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>, not on world highest list</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Saltoro_Kangri/a773UjzM">Saltoro Kangri</a> II</td><td>7,705 metres (25,279 ft)</td><td></td><td>K11</td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Saser_Kangri/khCGGthI">Saser Kangri</a> I</td><td>7,672 metres (25,171 ft)</td><td>35</td><td>K22</td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Chogolisa/dUcs1eN8">Chogolisa</a></td><td>7,665 metres (25,148 ft)</td><td>36</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Shispare_Sar/SPhdx1Hv">Shispare Sar</a></td><td>7,611 metres (24,970 ft)</td><td>38</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Trivor/8jDvUY7N">Trivor</a> Sar</td><td>7,577 metres (24,859 ft)</td><td>39</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Skyang_Kangri/fH7uE2us">Skyang Kangri</a></td><td>7,545 metres (24,754 ft)</td><td>43</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Mamostong_Kangri/llbXKXM5">Mamostong Kangri</a></td><td>7,516 metres (24,659 ft)</td><td>47</td><td>K35</td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Saser_Kangri/khCGGthI">Saser Kangri</a> II</td><td>7,513 metres (24,649 ft)</td><td>48</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Saser_Kangri/khCGGthI">Saser Kangri</a> III</td><td>7,495 metres (24,590 ft)</td><td>51</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Pumari_Chhish/M9m1hS63">Pumari Chhish</a></td><td>7,492 metres (24,580 ft)</td><td>53</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Passu_Sar/ylJbVtV3">Passu Sar</a></td><td>7,478 metres (24,534 ft)</td><td>54</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Yukshin_Gardan_Sar/d49hmGx5">Yukshin Gardan Sar</a></td><td>7,469 metres (24,505 ft)</td><td>55</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Teram_Kangri/ey1hd755">Teram Kangri</a> I</td><td>7,462 metres (24,482 ft)</td><td>56</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Malubiting/fmyL6Rst">Malubiting</a></td><td>7,458 metres (24,469 ft)</td><td>58</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/K12_(mountain)/8xUTbGtG">K12</a> or Saitang Peak</td><td>7,428 metres (24,370 ft)</td><td>61</td><td><a href="/facts/K12_(mountain)/8xUTbGtG">K12</a></td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a> subsidiary of <a href="/facts/Saltoro_Kangri/a773UjzM">Saltoro Kangri</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Sia_Kangri/2gQQpXnW">Sia Kangri</a></td><td>7,422 metres (24,350 ft)</td><td>63</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td>Skilma Gangri or Ghursay Kangri II</td><td>7,422 metres (24,350 ft)</td><td></td><td>K8</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a> on the western flank of the <a href="/facts/Siachen_Glacier/TRbrheXJ">Siachen Glacier</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Momhil_Sar/1lMHkHXj">Momhil Sar</a></td><td>7,414 metres (24,324 ft)</td><td>64</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Skil_Brum/Wd7FHLSt">Skil Brum</a></td><td>7,410 metres (24,310 ft)</td><td>66</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Haramosh_Peak/6eWbdpGK">Haramosh Peak</a></td><td>7,409 metres (24,308 ft)</td><td>67</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Ghent_Kangri/Co7q16HI">Ghent Kangri</a></td><td>7,401 metres (24,281 ft)</td><td>69</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Ultar_Peak/hw4yWlKg">Ultar Peak</a></td><td>7,388 metres (24,239 ft)</td><td>70</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Rimo_I/2xmMYkCz">Rimo I</a></td><td>7,385 metres (24,229 ft)</td><td>71</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Sherpi_Kangri/IFLmcFC3">Sherpi Kangri</a></td><td>7,380 metres (24,210 ft)</td><td>74</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bojohagur_Duanasir/7j1oek8w">Bojohagur Duanasir</a></td><td>7,329 metres (24,045 ft)</td><td></td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>, not on world highest list</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Yazghil_Dome_South/0Da8C1Vn">Yazghil Dome South</a></td><td>7,324 metres (24,029 ft)</td><td></td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>, not on world highest list</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Baltoro_Kangri/r4WTqSRH">Baltoro Kangri</a></td><td>7,312 metres (23,990 ft)</td><td>81</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Crown_(mountain)/q1WNUDJY">Crown Peak</a></td><td>7,295 metres (23,934 ft)</td><td>83</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Baintha_Brakk/z5Ke63Hg">Baintha Brakk</a></td><td>7,285 metres (23,901 ft)</td><td>86</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Yutmaru_Sar/MXKQKjV0">Yutmaru Sar</a></td><td>7,283 metres (23,894 ft)</td><td>87</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Baltistan_Peak/sIpvXdtV">Baltistan Peak</a></td><td>7,282 metres (23,891 ft)</td><td>88</td><td>K6</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Muztagh_Tower/Y2KRVYpl">Muztagh Tower</a></td><td>7,273 metres (23,862 ft)</td><td>90</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Diran/HLl9H4jV">Diran</a></td><td>7,266 metres (23,839 ft)</td><td>92</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Apsarasas_Kangri/3VQN5WEv">Apsarasas Kangri</a> I</td><td>7,243 metres (23,763 ft)</td><td>95</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>– <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Rimo_I/2xmMYkCz">Rimo I</a>II</td><td>7,233 metres (23,730 ft)</td><td>97</td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Gasherbrum_V/IcpRkUcU">Gasherbrum V</a></td><td>7,147 metres (23,448 ft)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Link_Sar/RRG1obmG">Link Sar</a></td><td>7,041 metres (23,100 ft)</td><td></td><td></td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a></td></tr><tr><td>Gamba Gangri</td><td>7,000 metres (23,000 ft) (approx)</td><td></td><td>K9</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a> near <a href="/facts/Trango_Towers/jlGHQeGm">Trango Towers</a></td></tr><tr><td>Gomgma Gangri</td><td>6,934 metres (22,749 ft)</td><td></td><td>K7</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a> at the head of the Charakusa Valley</td></tr><tr><td>Dansam Peak</td><td>6,666 metres (21,870 ft)</td><td></td><td>K13</td><td> <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a> south west of <a href="/facts/Saltoro_Kangri/a773UjzM">Saltoro Kangri</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Pastan_Kangri/hTjgf9go">Pastan Kangri</a></td><td>6,523 metres (21,401 ft)</td><td></td><td>K25</td><td> <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a> south of <a href="/facts/Saltoro_Kangri/a773UjzM">Saltoro Kangri</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The majority of the highest peaks are in the Gilgit–Baltistan region administered by Pakistan. Baltistan has more than 100 mountain peaks exceeding 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) height from sea level. </p> <h2 id="subranges">Subranges</h2> <p>The naming and division of the various subranges of the Karakoram is not universally agreed upon. However, the following is a list of the most important subranges, following Jerzy Wala.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> The ranges are listed roughly west to east. </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Batura_Muztagh/BHXscPgF">Batura Muztagh</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Rakaposhi-Haramosh_Mountains/YChfvMkD">Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Spantik-Sosbun_Mountains/wN8IPkTS">Spantik-Sosbun Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Hispar_Muztagh/MsWsGY9u">Hispar Muztagh</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/South_Ghujerab_Mountains/fdSWXeUe">South Ghujerab Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Panmah_Muztagh/FAQNFgGq">Panmah Muztagh</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Wesm_Mountains/eFzEPwGN">Wesm Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Masherbrum_Mountains/P29HzS33">Masherbrum Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Baltoro_Muztagh/7JPuovG5">Baltoro Muztagh</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Saltoro_Mountains/F1zW8IuY">Saltoro Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Siachen_Muztagh/8KCt5g2y">Siachen Muztagh</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Rimo_Muztagh/g0uKxe6J">Rimo Muztagh</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Saser_Muztagh/2MwjfPf4">Saser Muztagh</a></li></ul> <h2 id="passes">Passes</h2> <p>Passes from west to east are: </p> <ul><li>Dandala Pass is the most important and earlier pass. It starts from Ghursay saitang city to Yarqand in China. It is the main trade route between Khaplu, Ladakh, Kharmang to Yarqand, China.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Kilik_Pass/vf2Pz1R4">Kilik Pass</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mintaka_Pass/ooFNc4xy">Mintaka Pass</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Khunjerab_Pass/4VUuo3am">Khunjerab Pass</a> is the highest paved international border crossing at 4,693 m (15,397 ft). It serves the China-Pakistan <a href="/facts/Karakoram_Highway/1CMBsmx4">Friendship Highway</a>, the "8th world wonder".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Shimshal/FMP53Ax4">Shimshal</a> Pass</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mustagh_Pass/GKbCxfA2">Mustagh Pass</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Karakoram_Pass/EKpK693N">Karakoram Pass</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sasser_Pass/Cx9NjAWC">Sasser Pass</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Naltar_Valley/fqIsPPeI">Naltar</a> Pass or Pakora Pass<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a></li></ul> <p>The Khunjerab Pass is the only motorable pass across the range. The Shimshal Pass (which does not cross an international border) is the only other pass still in regular use. </p> <h2 id="cultural-references">Cultural references</h2> <p>The Karakoram mountain range has been referred to in a number of <a href="/facts/Novels/3Q8sXXLU">novels</a> and movies. <a href="/facts/Rudyard_Kipling/jmHXpRzn">Rudyard Kipling</a> refers to the Karakoram mountain range in his novel <i><a href="/facts/Kim_(novel)/yFmxagf9">Kim</a></i>, which was first published in 1900. <a href="/facts/Marcel_Ichac/z1Vy7fh9">Marcel Ichac</a> made a film titled <i>Karakoram</i>, chronicling a French expedition to the range in 1936. The film won the Silver Lion at the <a href="/facts/Venice_Film_Festival/ItsBLlQQ">Venice Film Festival</a> of 1937. <a href="/facts/Greg_Mortenson/FLutfY7r">Greg Mortenson</a> details the Karakoram, and specifically K2 and the <a href="/facts/Balti_people/9LNaJ2nG">Balti</a>, extensively in his book <i><a href="/facts/Three_Cups_of_Tea/AntUhqXb">Three Cups of Tea</a></i>, about his quest to build schools for children in the region. <i>K2 Kahani</i> (The K2 Story) by <a href="/facts/Mustansar_Hussain_Tarar/bG6tpva7">Mustansar Hussain Tarar</a> describes his experiences at K2 base camp.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Karakoram_Highway/1CMBsmx4">Karakoram Highway</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_mountain_ranges/cmwkhCyd">List of mountain ranges</a> of the world</li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_highest_mountains/uanjrrp1">List of highest mountains</a> (a list of mountains above 7,200 m (23,600 ft))</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mount_Imeon/TbyNLGYm">Mount Imeon</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Naltar_Valley/fqIsPPeI">Naltar Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Trans-Karakoram_Tract/AYLahvV2">Trans-Karakoram Tract</a></li></ul> <h3>Citations</h3> <h3>Sources</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/George_Nathaniel_Curzon/Y0l0ur32">Curzon, George Nathaniel</a>. 1896. <i>The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus</i>. Royal Geographical Society, London. Reprint: Elibron Classics Series, Adamant Media Corporation. 2005. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-4021-5983-8 (pbk); <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-4021-3090-2 (hbk).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Rudyard_Kipling/jmHXpRzn">Kipling, Rudyard</a> 2002. <i><a href="/facts/Kim_(novel)/yFmxagf9">Kim (novel)</a></i>; ed. by Zohreh T. Sullivan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 039396650X—This is the most extensive critical modern edition with footnotes, essays, maps, etc.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Greg_Mortenson/FLutfY7r">Mortenson, Greg</a> and Relin, David Oliver. 2008. <i><a href="/facts/Three_Cups_of_Tea/AntUhqXb">Three Cups of Tea</a></i>. Penguin Books Ltd. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-14-103426-3 (pbk); Viking Books <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-670-03482-6 (hbk); Tantor Media <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4001-5251-3 (MP3 CD).</li> <li>Kreutzmann, Hermann, <i>Karakoram in Transition: Culture, Development, and Ecology in the Hunza Valley</i>, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-19-547210-3.</li> <li>Shukurov, E. (2005), <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001412/141275e.pdf">"The Natural Environment of Central and South Asia"</a> (PDF), in Chahryar Adle (ed.), <i>History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. VI – Towards the contemporary period: from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century</i>, UNESCO, pp. 480–514, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-92-3-103985-0</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Dainelli, G. (1932). <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/1784325">A Journey to the Glaciers of the Eastern Karakoram</a>. <i>The Geographical Journal</i>, 79(4), 257–268.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <a href="/facts/Wikimedia_Commons/lzkBFxTg">Wikimedia Commons</a> has media related to: Karakoram (category) <ul><li><a href="http://blankonthemap.free.fr/default.htm">Blankonthemap</a> The Northern Kashmir Website</li> <li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1491179.stm">Pakistan's Northern Areas dilemma</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/greatkarakorams/">Great Karakorams</a> – images on <a href="/facts/Flickr/BvB6ubLr">Flickr</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Karakoram". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/Karakoram" target="_blank">https://www.dictionary.com/browse/Karakoram</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Karakoram Range at the Encyclopædia Britannica. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/312055" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/312055</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Hindu Kush Himalayan Region". International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. Retrieved 17 October 2014. <a href="https://icimod.org/?q=1137" target="_blank">https://icimod.org/?q=1137</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Shukurov, The Natural Environment of Central and South Asia 2005, p. 512. - Shukurov, E. (2005), "The Natural Environment of Central and South Asia" (PDF), in Chahryar Adle (ed.), History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. VI – Towards the contemporary period: from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, UNESCO, pp. 480–514, ISBN 978-92-3-103985-0 <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001412/141275e.pdf" target="_blank">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001412/141275e.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Voiland, Adam (2013). "The Eight-Thousanders". NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved 23 December 2016. <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/8000MeterPeaks" target="_blank">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/8000MeterPeaks</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Mountains". Planet Earth. Episode 3. 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"A Remote sensing approach for monitoring debris-covered glaciers in the high altitude Karakoram Himalayas". International Journal of Geomatics and Geosciences. 2 (3): 833–841. <a href="#fnref:24" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:25"><p>Kuhle, M. (1988). "The Pleistocene Glaciation of Tibet and the Onset of Ice Ages- An Autocycle Hypothesis.Tibet and High Asia. Results of the Sino-German Joint Expeditions (I)". GeoJournal. 17 (4): 581–596. doi:10.1007/BF00209444. S2CID 129234912. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:25" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:26"><p>Kuhle, M. (2006). "The Past Hunza Glacier in Connection with a Pleistocene Karakoram Ice Stream Network during the Last Ice Age (Würm)". In Kreutzmann, H.; Saijid, A. (eds.). Karakoram in Transition. 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