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Hispar Pass
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Hispar Pass or Hispar La (Urdu: درہ ہسپر; ) (el. 5,128 m/16,824 ft) is a high-altitude, non-technical mountain pass in the Karakoram Range in Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.[1][2]
Key Information
At the pass, the Biafo Glacier (63 km long) and Hispar Glacier (49 km long) meet to form the world's longest glacial traverse outside of the polar regions, 100 kilometers in length.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ice and isolation in the Karakoram". Archived from the original on 11 December 2022.
- ^ Conway, W. M. (1893). "The Crossing of the Hispar Pass". The Geographical Journal. 1 (2): 131–138. doi:10.2307/1773755. ISSN 0016-7398. JSTOR 1773755. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Northern Pakistan detailed placemarks in Google Earth Archived 4 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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