Karakorum
Americannoun
noun
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The incident occurred in the Karakorum mountains on Monday when the 31-year-old was caught in a rockfall.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
An estimated 90,000+ glaciers of the Himalayas, Karakorum and Hindu Kush mountains are currently at risk of reaching the tipping point, threatening the nearly 870 million people that rely on them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
To do that, he needed a capital, which he stored near Chinggis Khan’s warehouses in the Mongol heartlands; this was the origin of Karakorum as a city.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
K2, on the Chinese-Pakistani border in the Karakorum Range, has one of the deadliest records, with most climbers dying on the descent, where the slightest mistake can trigger an avalanche and become fatal.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Karakorum, for instance, was described as a small city about the same size as the town of St. Denis near Paris.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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