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
In early 1260, he received word that his presence was needed at a kurultai in Karakorum.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 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
Kúblái succeeded by diplomacy in detaching some of the princes from the enterprise, and resolved to march in person to the scene of action, whilst despatching Bayan to the Karakorum frontier to intercept Kaídu.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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