Roadways typically serve as dependable conduits for global mobility. But scattered across the map are a handful of routes that challenge not just vehicles, but the courage and concentration of those ...

Mueez Ud Din and Mathieu Maynadier opened a new alpine route on the east ridge of 7,029m Spantik. They speak to us about ...

They would map our feet and use the finest leather to make shoes which lasted a lifetime or until we grew out of them. The China Boot House, a prominent landmark in the small city, was my ...

The Wakhan Corridor, a narrow valley located between the Pamir Plateau and the Hindu Kush mountains, stretches 400 kilometers, with about 100 kilometers located within China's borders.

In the spring breeze of the Pamir Plateau, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a lingering chill still hangs in the air. However, at the entrance of the Paiyike Border Police ...

ISLAMABAD: Northwest University (NWU) of China and Karakoram International University (KIU) of Pakistan are set to launch joint scientific expeditions in the Pamir-Hindu Kush-Karakoram region.The in ...

Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest mountain, rises to 8,485 meters (27,838 feet). Located about 20 kilometers southeast of Everest, it is easily recognizable by its striking pyramid-shaped peak.

A new study analysing a lake formed by a glacier surge in the Karakoram Mountains has revealed how satellite images can be used to monitor the potential for lake ...

Is also known as Soda Plain. It is bordered to the west and southwest by the Karakoram Range and to the north and northeast by the Kunlun Mountains. The area mostly remained ignored by both China and ...

With the opening of the lofty Karakoram Highway in the 1970s and its later co-option into the ambitious CPEC project, Pakistan ...

His body was never recovered. Being the first woman to stand atop Koser Gunge, just shy of 21,000 feet above rest of the Karakoram range in Kashmir, wasn’t enough for Fanny Bullock Workman.

The standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has approved five significant road stretches, including four that pass through the Karakoram Wildlife Sanctuary along the Line of ...