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The Karakoram Pass (Uyghur: قاراقۇرۇم ئېغىزى) is a 5,540 m or 18,176 ft [1] mountain pass between India and China in the Karakoram Range. [2] It is the highest pass on the ancient caravan route between Leh in Ladakh and Yarkand in the Tarim Basin. The name 'Karakoram' comes from a Turkic language meaning 'Black Gravel'. [3]
In Gilgit Baltistan, passes with Xinjiang from northwest to southeast are Mintaka Pass near India-Xinjiang-Afghanistan tri-junction, Parpik Pass, Khunjerab Pass, then India-held Aghil Pass north of K2. Then in Depsang Plains in Ladakh, passes with Xinjiang northwest to southeast are Karakoram Pass (Qara Tagh La) and Lanak La. Kongka Pass: Ladakh
The trade route via the Karakoram Pass was used by caravans traveling between Leh and the Tarim Basin. Daulat Beg Oldi was a halting point for the caravans. Filippo de Filippi, who explored the area in 1913–1914, described: [18] But on the other hand the caravans come and go incessantly, in the summer, in astonishing numbers.
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Saser Kangri is the highest peak in the Saser Muztagh, the easternmost subrange of the Karakoram Range in India, Saser Kangri I having an altitude of 7,672 m (25,171 ft). The Ladakh Range has no major peaks; its average height is a little less than 6,000 m (20,000 ft), and few of its passes are less than 5,000 m (16,000 ft).
After India reactivated an Advanced Landing Ground at Daulat Beg Oldi on its side of the Karakoram Pass, China upgraded the Shenxianwan Post to a full military base. It is now equipped with an iconic observation tower, facilities to hold a battalion of troops, a large dish antenna for satellite communications, and an all-weather road linking to ...
The Note proposed a border which broadly followed the main Karakoram crest dividing the watersheds of the Indus River and the Tarim River, but with a variation to pass through a Hunza post at Darwaza near the Shimshal Pass. [12] The Chinese did not respond to the Note and the Indian government never revisited the boundary in the same form again ...
US maps of the area and many world atlases starting in the 1960s showed the Line of Control between Pakistani and Indian territory running from the last defined point in the 1949 Karachi Agreement, NJ9842, east-northeast to the Karakoram Pass, thus putting the whole of Saltoro Kangri and the entire Siachen Glacier in Pakistan.