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
K2, on the Chinese-Pakistani border in the Karakorum Range, has one of the deadliest records with most people dying on the way down.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2022
Located in the Karakorum mountain range, K2 is one of the most dangerous climbs.
From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2021
Karakorum, a range of the Himalayas, extending from the Hindu-Kush eastward into Thibet, and a pass in the centre of it 18,000 ft. high.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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