Khunjerab Pass

The Pass of the Pakistani side

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The Kunjirap Pass ( Khunjerab Pass; Kunjirap La; Hongqilapu Shankou; Kunjirap Daban (official Chinese name );红 其 拉 甫 达坂; Pinyin: Hongqilapu Daban ) is a pass at the transition between the Hindu Kush and Karakoram. It connects Xinjiang in China with Pakistan. With a summit altitude of 4693 m above sea level it is the highest paved pass in the world.

About the Pass leads the Karakoram Highway, which passes through the Gilgit Hunza Valley on the Karimabad after Sust, from where it is about 120 km above the pass to the next Chinese village Taxkorgan are now and then a further 230 km to Kashgar. On this route there is a daily bus service since June 2006.

Since 2007, efforts, China and Pakistan run over the pass with a railway line to connect.

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Looking to Pakistan from the Pass

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• George Nathaniel Curzon: The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus. Royal Geographical Society, London 1896 Reprint: . Elibron, Boston 2005, ISBN 1-4021-5983-8.
• John King: Karakoram Highway: the high road to China. Hawthorn, Victoria, 1989, ISBN 0-86442-065- X.