Sasser-Pass

From the Nubra side (from the book of the Brothers Schlagintweit, 1857)

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The Sasser Pass, also Saser passport or Saser -la called, with 5411 m above sea level is a high mountain pass in India, in the southeastern part of the Karakoram main chain. He is regarded as the boundary between the Saser Muztagh, the southernmost sub-chain of the Karakorum, and Rimo Muztagh the north. The pass leads from the Nubra Valley on the west side to the upper Shyok valley on the east side of the mountain. The pass is located on the old Karawanenenroute that led to the Tarim Basin in the summer of Ladakh after Yarkant and further east still exceeds the higher, but easier -to-climb Karakorumpass.

" This was the notorious Sasser, not the highest but probably the most impressive and dangerous of the passes along the caravan route in between Ladakh and Yarkand. ( German: That was the infamous Sasser, not the highest, but certainly the most impressive and most dangerous pass along the load carrier route between Ladakh and Yarkant ) ".

The Sasser Pass could not be bypassed earlier in the summer. To commemorate him, carrying animals were like mules or ponies needed because he was too icy for the two-humped Bactrian camels that carried loads on the pass from the north of China. The Sasser Pass is located in the south of the Siachen glacier, where the Siachen conflict between India and Pakistan was fought armed 1984-2003. At issue in this border region of the demarcation of the boundary on the glacier, although this was set down in 1972 in the Shimla Agreement.