High Road to Hunza -Documentary on Karakoram Highway (KKH) - FacesOfPakistan

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The 1300 kilometres (800 miles) long KKH, or the N-5, originates from Hassan Abdal, a place some 45 kilometres from Islamabad on the Islamabad - Peshawar Highway, goes through Abbotabad, Manshera, crosses the River Indus at Thakot, on to Gilgit (through Besham, Pattan and Sazin) and then to Chilas, Hunza and Sost before crossing the Khunjerab Pass at the height of some 4800 metres (15,750ft) - the Zero Point between Pakistan and China. It then enters the high Central Asian plateau before winding down through the Pamirs to Kashgar, at the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert. It is a marvel of human endurance, ingenuity and determination. Both Pakistani and Chinese workers and engineers worked day and night over some of the most formidable and inaccessible mountain ranges of the world, with deep gorges and torrential Indus running along the track with its full might. The Indus River flows northwest, dividing the Himalaya from the Karakoram. The KKH runs along the Indus for 310 kilometres of its climb north, winding around the foot of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world. Not far north of Jaglot the Gilgit river joins the Indus from the west. The highway then leaves the Indus for Gilgit, Hunza and Khunjrab rivers to take on the Karakoram Range - where 12 of the 30 highest mountains in the world overlook the KKH. At Khunjrab Pass, the KKH proudly stands as the highest metalled border crossing in the world. En route to Khunjrab, before Gilgit, there is a road sign inviting the attention of the tourists to stop and see the the Hindu Kush mountains converge with the Karakoram Range, a part of the Himalayan mountain system. While traveling along the KKH, many a tourist wonder as to how the Pakistanis and Chinese ever get this road through? Since the road has been carved through a tectonic collision zone and still generally kept open.

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[SuperJeandi]

@sourabhsh111 listen your all the same brownies, long live israel,

[sourabhsh111]

FUCK PORKIS.....HUNZA VALLEY BELONGS TO INDIA

[jmlhunzai]

@indra1sen sorry dude its nt a part of JK if we study the history of GB DOGAR force was in GB bt the warriors of GB fought against them and get GB after all for 14 days GB is a freedom state the ppl of GB make or became a part of pakistan ...if u remined the old name of kashmir its name ias KHOSHAR in our mother tounge language which means that part which is joined ........so GB was never a part of JK

[adriank9]

r1a

[indra1sen]

@ThePakibro786 hey fuckhole- that is illegally occupied parts of J&K, my motherland...Leave us alone losers....

[ThePakibro786]

@indra1sen this isnt kashmir dumbass`

[indra1sen]

This is illegally occupied Pak Occupied Kashmir. Free Kashmir from Pakistan

[B7ONY]

09:35 sooooo cute MASHALLAH:)

[shaaam91]

proud to b beutiful pakistani...nd also gilgitbaltistani...

[03226400892]

its great, awesome, marvalous, zabardast and kamal of nature... love pakistan