Kilik-Pass

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The Kilik Pass is a 4827 m above sea level befindlicher high mountain pass, the 30 km west of Mintaka Pass in the extreme east of the Hindu Kush between Pakistan and Xinjiang is located in China. Both passes that can only be overcome by foot or by pack animals, were called in the past, the main transitions from the north to the Hunza valley, also Gojal Valley. The Kilik Pass should not be to the west of the Sanju Pass confused with the same pass that leads to the Tarim basin of Shahidula.

The Kilik Pass is the shortest and quickest route from northern India into the Tarim Basin, which was usually open all year round. The pass was extremely dangerous and impassable. This has been achieved the pass of Taxkorgan from, from the crossroads at Minteka River after 70 km. From there, the Mintaka Valley could follow 80 kilometers away the Mintaka Pass and another 30 kilometers to achieve "alternative Kilik Pass ", both leading to Hunza and from there was able to travel about the so-called Rafiq or hanging passages ( German: "hanging way " ) to the Gilgit valley and on to Kashmir or on the plains of Gandharan be continued.

Laden pack animals could carry into the upper Hunza Valley over the Mintaka Pass and on the Kilikpässe year-round loads, then the burden of carriers were to bring into the Gilgit Valley, a complex and dangerous undertaking. From there, the loads were reloaded onto pack animals and will continue then placed in the east to Kashmir and on long routes to Taxila or west to Chitral. From there they could relatively easily be brought in either Pakistan to Jalalabad in Afghanistan or Peshawar.

The Mintaka Pass was the passport which has been used in the past most until the glacial ice spread on this pass. Then the Kilik Pass was used by the travelers who came from China and Afghanistan or from more distant areas and wanted to overcome without great dangers the mountains.

Early graves of the Kyrgyz nomads - and rock carvings, dating back to the Buddhist period, suggest that these mountain passes travelers, pilgrims and traders of were committed for a long time.

The new Karakoram Highway runs south and then west on the 4733 m high Kunjirap Pass.

Itemization

  • Pass in Pakistan
  • Pass in China
  • Hindu Kush
Gilgit–Baltistan Tashkurgan River Hunza River Indus River Gilgit Agency Jalalabad (disambiguation)
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