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Hunza is a very small state. It lies in the Karakoram Mountains north of Pakistan. The 40,000 or so Hunzarwals live on barley and millet but they love apricots. In Hunza, for instance, it was long customary for a pretty girl to refuse to marry anyone who lived in one of the few places where apricots did not grow. After marriage (mothers-in-law often went along on the honeymoon) wives would practice a unique form of birth control: if a woman became pregnant she stayed away from her husband's bed until the child was weaned...
...evident at week's end that more than strong words were needed to stop the Chinese. At Ladakh, on the western end of the 2,500-mile frontier, Chinese troops outflanked Indian defenders and forced the evacuation of the key military post guarding the entrance to Karakoram Pass. The Chinese moved in tanks and were massing supplies, presumably to seize Chushul airfield which, at 14,000 ft., is one of the world's highest. India's response was to airlift light tanks to Chushul, since, if the airfield falls to the Chinese, all of Ladakh may have...
...high, bleak Karakoram, mightiest of the Himalayan ranges, China, Russia, India. Tibet. Afghanistan and Pakistan merge in a tumult of mountains. Dominating the peaks, in the northernmost corner of Pakistan-held Kashmir, is the world's second highest mountain: 28,250-ft. Mt. Godwin Austen, known to mountaineers as K-2.* For years, K-2 has been regarded as unclimbable. Last week the news came through that the unclimbable had been climbed by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, 57, a geology professor at the University of Milan...
...surveyors' method of numbering the peaks of the Karakoram range...
...western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths of the sweltering Turfan Depression, and across the 18,300-ft. Karakoram Pass, until they made safety in a Kashmir village...