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The Hindu Kush, which stretched six hundred miles from the Helmand valley in southern Afghanistan to the Pamir Knot, where China, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan joined, had its center near Bamiyan.
A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010
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Spreading north, as Marker 89 through the Arabian Peninsula, "I" migrated across Iran and Iraq into Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and on into the area of Pamir Knot, a four mountain confluence on the Eastern Himalaya. dragging Marker 9 along with me.
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And when they got into Central Asia, they bumped into these mountain rangings, the Pamir Knot, the Hindu Kush coming off to the west and the Himalayas to the east and Tajikistan (ph) going off to the northeast.
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By extension, it is also the name of a massive mountain system that includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and other, lesser, ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot.
WN.com - Articles related to 100 peaks in Kashmir opened to foreigners 2010
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By extension, it is also the name of a massive mountain system that includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and other, lesser, ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot.
WN.com - Articles related to 100 peaks in Kashmir opened to foreigners 2010
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Hindu Kush, and other, lesser, ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot.
WN.com - Articles related to 100 peaks in Kashmir opened to foreigners 2010
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By extension, it is also the name of a massive mountain system that includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and other, lesser, ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot.
WN.com - Articles related to 100 peaks in Kashmir opened to foreigners 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Pamir Knot
"Once across the desert, travelers faced towering peaks separating the Taklamakan from all points west and south. It is here that the earth's largest mountain ranges crash together in a Mardi Gras of snow and ice--the Pamir Knot--where the Himalayas, Tianshan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush meet. Once through, travelers descend west to Samarkand or south toward India."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 10
"He began his trek in the Indian town of Kashmir. From there he crossed a region with over thirty mountains more than 25,000 feet (7,600 m) tall, the Pamir Knot which includes the treacherous Nanga Parbat, one of the fastest growing mountains on earth, rising 0.28 inches (7 mm) per year.
"These mountains were formed some fifty million years ago when the continent of India collided with the Eurasian landmass, creating a spiral galaxy of massive peaks radiating clockwise into the Karakorum, Hindu Kush, Pamir, Kunlun, and Himalayan mountain ranges."
ditto, p. 27
December 30, 2016