Karakoram Range: References & Edit History
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Hermann von Schlagintweit, Adolphe von Schlagintweit, and Robert von Schlagintweit, Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia, 4 vol. and atlas (1861–66), is an excellent account of a scientific exploration undertaken in 1854–58 in the Karakoram Range. A superb evaluation of science and research in the Karakorams is given in Kenneth Hewitt, “European Science in High Asia: Geomorphology in the Karakoram, Himalaya to 1939,” in Keith J. Tinkler (ed.), History of Geomorphology: From Hutton to Hack (1989), pp. 165–203. Results of contemporary research in the area are surveyed in Edward Derbyshire and Lewis A. Owen (eds.), Quaternary of the Karakoram and Himalaya (1989); K.J. Miller (ed.), The International Karakoram Project, 2 vol. (1984); M.P. Searle, Geology and Tectonics of the Karakoram Mountains (1991); John F. Shroder, Jr. (ed.), Himalaya to the Sea: Geology, Geomorphology, and the Quaternary (1993); and Hermann Kreutzmann, Karakoram in Transition: Culture, Development, and Ecology in the Hunza Valley (2006). Nigel J.R. Allan, “Kashgar to Islamabad: The Impact of the Karakorum Highway on Mountain Society and Habitat,” Scottish Geographical Magazine, 105(3):130–141 (1989), discusses the transformation of the western Karakorams caused by construction of the Karakoram Highway. Also useful is Nigel J.R. Allan, Karakorum Himalaya, 2nd ed. (1998), a bibliography. Accounts of climbs in the Karakorams include Victor Sanders, Elusive Summits: Four Expeditions in the Karakoram (1990); and Charles S. Houston et al., K2: The Savage Mountain (1994), about the 1953 American expedition to K2.
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Article History
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| Invalidated site: University of Washington Web Server - The Karakoram Mountain Range. | Oct 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Snow and Ice Data Center - What Is The Karakoram Anomaly? | Sep 04, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Surge-type and surge-modified glaciers in the Karakoram. | Feb 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York - White Rose Research Online - Manifestations and mechanisms of the Karakoram glacier Anomaly (PDF). | Dec 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Snow and Ice Data Center - What Is The Karakoram Anomaly? | May 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Washington Web Server - The Karakoram Mountain Range. | Feb 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Geology and Tectonics of the Karakoram Mountains. | Dec 13, 2023 | ||
| Revised the People section. | Mar 23, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Central Karakoram National Park - Karakoram Mountain. | Jan 24, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: IndiaNetzone - Karakoram Range. | Jan 24, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Central Karakoram National Park - Karakoram Mountain. | Jan 24, 2013 | ||
| Added new Web site: World Wildlife Fund - Karakoram Range. | Jun 05, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Mar 13, 2009 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated; photographs added. | Mar 13, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |