Khunjerab Pass

English Etymology en wbl درہ خنجراب waterfall house valley, from wbl دره valley; crack; fissure + wbl خون house + wbl جراب creek coming from a spring or a waterfall, or, 'Valley of Blood'.en December 2, 1979 Seymour Topping Seymour Topping KARAKORAM w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170802175218/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/02/archives/article-6-no-title-karakoram.html https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/02/archives/article-6-no-title-karakoram.html August 02, 2017 0362-4331 1645522 The herdsman spoke in Wakhi, a language of northern Hunza and the border areas. In Walchl, Khunjerab means “Valley of Blood,” perhaps an ancient reference to the travelers who did not survive the perilous passage.en 1980 George B. Schaller George Schaller Karakoram Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya https://archive.org/details/stonesofsilencej0000scha/ w:Andre Deutsch 0233972153 16487170 93 https://archive.org/details/stonesofsilencej0000scha/page/93/ Three days later we were back at Sost, ready to proceed by car to Khunjerab Pass. Khunjerab is a Wakhi word meaning Valley of Blood, so named because of the fearful toll it exacted of animals and men. en Proper noun ~ Khunjerab Pass en mountain pass ar/Xinjiang ; mountain pass terr/Gilgit-Baltistan A mountain pass connecting Xinjiang in China with Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway. en 12 February 1971 12 February 1971 PRC Government Delegation Leaves Peking for Pakistan Daily Report: Communist China I 30 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924113135044&seq=473 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA International Service 31371214 Communist China: International Affairs A 14 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924113135044&seq=490 A Chinese Government delegation led by Yang Chieh, minister of communications, left here by air today for Pakistan to take part in a ceremony to hand over the highway between Khunjerab Pass and Hallehgush that has been built with Chinese aid. en 1972 Theodore Shabad Sinkiang China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ w:Praeger Publishers 71-178868 482667885 313 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/313/ In 1971, a motor road was inaugurated between Sinkiang and Pakistan across Khunjerab Pass of the Karakorum Mountains. en 1977 George Beals Schaller Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya Wildlife Behavior and Ecology Chicago, Ill.; London The University of Chicago Press plate 15 https://archive.org/details/mountainmonarchs0000scha/page/n365/mode/1up 0-226-73641-5 The rolling uplands at 5000 m near Khunjerab Pass on the Hunza-Sinkiang border are a favored habitat of Marco Polo sheep. en September 8, 2010 w:Selig S. Harrison China's Presence in Pakistan w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201852/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/opinion/09iht-edletters.html 23 September 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/opinion/09iht-edletters.html 0362-4331 1645522 Opinion In addition, several thousand P.L.A. troops are said to be stationed in the Khunjerab Pass on the Xinjiang border to protect Karakoram Highway construction crews, with ready access to Gilgit-Baltistan. en October 15, 2013 World's most dangerous roads https://web.archive.org/web/20131110153112/https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/destinations/2013/10/14/worlds-most-dangerous-roads/2981499/ 10 November 2013 w:USA Today 0734-7456 658972642 The Karakoram Highway, which links China and Pakistan over the 15,400-foot Khunjerab Pass, winds through some spectacular gorges along the route of the old Silk Road. The international "Friendship Highway," which isn't even paved on the Pakistani side, is so unstable and prone to flash floods that almost 900 workers died during its construction, mostly crushed by landslides. en 04/24/2015 Frank Sieren Sieren's China: Beijing's 'Marshall Plan' for Pakistan w:Deutsche Welle https://web.archive.org/web/20150829235603/https://www.dw.com/en/sierens-china-beijings-marshall-plan-for-pakistan/a-18405409 August 29, 2015 https://www.dw.com/en/sierens-china-beijings-marshall-plan-for-pakistan/a-18405409 China On the Chinese side we drove up the 4,700-meter-high Khunjerab Pass from Kashgar - which was like driving through the Black Forest to Lake Titisee. At the border station the road ended abruptly, cut off like a piece of cake, before continuing a good meter lower down. The comfortable, tarred road suddenly became a dangerous, rough, rubble-strewn one. en October 20, 2023 Ariba Shahid Khunjerab Pass linking Pakistan, China to stay open all year round w:Reuters https://archive.ph/M2wNX https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/khunjerab-pass-linking-pakistan-china-to-stay-open-all-year-round-idUSL1N3BQ0FE/ 21 February 2025 The Khunjerab Pass, a major land trade route between Pakistan and China, will be converted to an all-weather border, Pakistani caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said at an event at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Friday. Translations mountain pass Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 紅其拉甫山口, cmn 紅其拉甫達阪, cmn 紅其拉甫 Polish: pl Przełęcz Khunjerab f Urdu: ur درہ خنجراب m References Further reading Khunjerab Pass en 1998 Khunjerab Pass Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1554 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1554/ 2