Pakistan is honored with a long scope of mountains that are a fascination for geologists and hikers from everywhere in the world. Pakistan has more than 100 pinnacles that are over 7,000 meters. Out of the world's 14 most important tops, four are in Pakistan. These most important tops are arranged essentially in the Karakoram Range.
This article discusses a portion of the renowned mountains tracked down in Pakistan.
Here are some famous mountains in Pakistan, which are as under.
From standpoint,
Karakoram
The Karakoram Range has more than 60 pinnacles
which are over 7,000 meters (22,960 ft.). This reach incorporates K2, which is
the second most elevated pinnacle of the world remaining at 8,611 meters
(28,251 ft.)
The Karakoram
Range is a huge mountain range that spreads southeast along the watershed
separating Central and South Asia, approximately 300 miles (500 km) from
Afghanistan's easternmost tip.
The longest glaciers
outside of high latitudes and the highest concentration of high mountains in
the world are found there. The Hindu Kush to the west, the Pamirs to the
northwest, the Kunlun Mountains to the northeast, and the Himalayas to the
southeast comprise the mountain range complex that includes the Karakorams.
The Karakoram system
contains the borders of Tajikistan, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India,
which gives this isolated area significant geopolitical importance. The Turkic
term for "Black Rock" or "Black Mountain" was rendered as
"Kurra-koorrum," which first appeared in early 19th-century English
literature.
K2
This is the second most prominent mountain on the planet, and a piece of the Karakoram Range stretching out from the Himalayan reach.
It is situated on the lining portions of the Northern areas of Pakistan and China. Due to the troublesome climb of this mountain, K2 is likewise called Savage Mountain.
A European group previously endeavored to climb K2 in 1856.
An individual from this group, Thomas Montgomerie, named this pinnacle
"K2" as it was the second most elevated in the Karakoram Range. The
other five pinnacles are named K1 (Masherbrum), K3 (Broad Peak), K4 (Gasherbrum
II), and K5 (Gasherbrum I).
Hindu
Kush
In the northwest, there is a mountain range called the Hindu Kush. Most pieces of the great Hindu Kush range (Eastern Hindu Kush range), are situated in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This reach is likewise present in Ghizar, Yasin Valley, and Ishkoman in Pakistan's Northern Areas. Tirich Mir, situated in Chitral (25,289 ft.) is the most noteworthy point in the Hindu Kush range.
Hindu
Raj
The Hindu Raj is situated in the northern district of Pakistan, between the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram ranges. Koyo Zom (22,546 ft.) is its most noteworthy pinnacle.
Although the
Hindu Raj Mountains are a magnificent range in and of themselves, the massive
Peaks of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush dwarf them, much like the Pir Panjals
do to the south across the Great Himalayan Range.
It isn't that it doesn't have heavy loads; rather, in an area that
is home to many peaks rising to 7,000 meters or even 8,000 meters, the Koyo
Zum, the highest peak in the Hindu Raj Mountains, is dwarfed by the surrounding
peaks, which are still quite tall at 6872 meters (22,546 feet). To put that
height into perspective, the Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Andes, is 6962
meters tall.
A broader definition of
the Hindu Kush would encompass a fourth region in Pakistan known as the Hindu
Raj, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. A lengthy, winding range of
mountains, including
Mounts Darkot (22,447
feet [6,842 meters])
Buni Zom (6,553 meters;
21,499 feet)
Lupsuk Peak (5,749
meters, or 18,861 feet)
Lawarai / Lowari Pass
(3,688 meters / 12,100 feet)
The Lowari Pass links Dir
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with Chitral, which is located in the same province. Of
the four historic passes that linked Chitral with the outside world, the Lowari
Pass is the lowest.
The Lowari Pass is
well-known for its avalanches and the high death toll it has historically
claimed. Consider it similarly to how you would the Rohtang or Zoji. The
southern Pakistani region of Swat Kohistan's outlying mountains is also a part
of the Hindu Kush if this chain is included in the Hindu Kush.
Nanga
Parbat
Nanga Parbat is situated on the western side of the Himalayas. It is arranged in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, south of the Indus River in the Astore District.
Nanga Parbat is locally known as Diamer which means “King of Mountains” is the
ninth-highest mountain in the world and it has a summit of 26,660 ft.
Safed
Koh
The Safed Koh or White Mountain range lies at the Pakistan-Afghanistan line. It ranges up to 4,761 meters (15,620 ft.) above ocean level.
"White mountain") is, in many ways, the most remarkable range of mountains on Pakistan's northwest frontier. It stretches like a 14,000-foot wall, straight and rigid, towering over all surrounding hills, from the mass of mountains that overlook Kabul in the southeast to the frontiers of India. It also maintains a strike that, while roughly perpendicular to the borderline, differs strangely from the typical border ridge and valley conformation.
Geographically speaking, the Safed Koh is not a distant range because
the Kabul River, which flows from Dakka into the Peshawar in Pakistan plains,
cuts a deep waterway across the range. This is the only point where the water
divides between the Safed Koh and the vast Shandur offshoot of the Hindu Kush
breaks.
It is a strategically significant topographical feature because it
separates the valley of Kurram from the basin of the Kabul River and the Khyber
route, with no practical route across its rough crest to link the two.
Its western slopes, which border the mountain masses that dominate the
Kabul plain, are forested and picturesque, featuring bold, craggy ridges, deep
glens that intersect them, and the northern spurs that reach downward through
the Shinwari country towards Gandamak and Jalalabad are exactly picturesque.
Here, there is an abundance of moisture and late snowfall, but on the
sun-burned cliffs to the south, there is little sign of vegetation. The Safed
Koh abruptly splits off as it approaches the Peshawar plains, and the Afridi
Tirah has long been concealed from view by the foothills of these spurs to the
east.
Kirthar
Kirthar Mountains are situated in Sindh and Balochistan. The reach expands toward the south for almost 300km from the Mula River (Balochistan) to Cape Muari (west of Karachi) on the Arabian Sea. The most extreme height of the Kirthar range that is available in Sindh is nearly 7,056 feet above ocean level, which makes it Sindh's most elevated top.
This reach is available a couple of miles northwest of the Gorakh Hill Station (5,688 feet.)
Salt Range
In Punjab, there is a slope framework called 'The Salt Range'. It gets its name from the broad stone salt stores available nearby. This reach lies across the northern area of Punjab, from the Jhelum River to the Indus. The renowned salt mines of Khewra, Mayo, Warcha, and Kalabagh are available in 'The Salt Range'.
Sulaiman
The Sulaiman Mountains are situated in northern Balochistan and the Zabul regions of Afghanistan. It is available at the line of the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau and west of the Indus River.
The Sulaiman Mountains,
also known as Kōh-e Sulaymān are a north-south extension of the southern Hindu
Kush mountain system in Pakistan.
The Sulaiman Range is a mountain
range in central Pakistan that divides Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab from
Balochistan. It spreads southward approximately 280 miles (450 km) from the
Gumal Pass to just north of Jacobabad.
Its heights gradually
decrease toward the south, with summits averaging 6,000–7,000 feet (1,800–2,100
meters). The highest point is the pair of peaks known as Takht-i-Sulaiman, or
Solomon's Throne, which is 30 miles [48 km] from the Gumal Pass.
Legend has it that
Solomon visited Hindustan, and the higher peak, at 18,481 feet (5,633 meters),
is home to a ziyārat (shrine) that is frequented by many pilgrims each year.
While the range declines
more gradually on the west, it drops steeply on the eastern face to the Indus
River. There is an abundance of juniper and edible pines in the north, olives
in the center, and little vegetation in the south. The main passes in the north
are the Ghat, Zao, Chuhar Khel Dhana, and Sakhi Sarwar.
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