Word: karakorams
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...that bleeding would keep their arteries from bursting. She swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves. "It made us feel like idiots," said Vincoe. In 18,600-foot Karakoram Pass, the sun burned their faces, and their tea froze before they could drink...
Their road led across the highest tableland in the world, the Karakoram plateau of northern Tibet. The Kazaks set their faces toward the blue, snowcapped 20,000-foot wall of the Himalayas, worked their painful way through steep narrow gorges, over wind-filled passes like knife cuts in the rock...
...science . . . The man who found the Karakoram pass...
...Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow ledges, over slippery boulders...