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KAILASH HAZARI IAS ACADEMY /ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICE (WORLDWIDE)
"karakoram" Discussed on KAILASH HAZARI IAS ACADEMY /ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICE (WORLDWIDE)
"Hello Friends. First to even officer. Captain Shiva Johann had become the first women officer to be actively deployed on the glacier. Captain Shiva had to become the first women officer to be actively hosted at Kumar post located on the CH glacier, the world's largest battlefield. Contains an officer of the fire and fury gods in the admin. If I had been posted for three months at Kumar chalky at an altitude of about. 2023 feet in CH on January 15, 600 earlier, women officers have been deployed at the CSG based located at an altitude of about 9000 feet edge part of their miraculous hosting with the unit. Oil and fuel got the fire and fury corps each of the CLE called the. Gods, its headquarters. It lay. They are deployed by the China Pakistan borders also. They protect the sea a gene glacier. In excessive area located at an altitude of about 20,000 feet located in Ladakh. At age located in the karakoram mountain range. From here, India can monitor the activity of Pakistan as well as China.
History Unplugged Podcast
"karakoram" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"People they conquer is, they look for people who can be of use to them. They want religious leaders of pretty much any religion to use their spiritual power as they see it for the advancement of the Mongol Empire. They want artisans, artists, specialized traders and merchants. They want anyone who can be of service to the Mongol Empire. And they're prepared to congregate these people in their major city. So as you say, visitors to the Mongol cities noticed just the sheer variety of people who are there. It must have been a fascinating place to visit all these people from across Eurasia, who previously had had virtually no contact with each other. It is remarkable. But one of the features of the centralization is in trade. Because of course, the Mongols having, by the sort of mid 30th century, the mongers of conquered the greater part of the entirety of Eurasia. And that means they've got a lot of money to spend because when they've taken these civilizations, they've brought all that wealth back with them. And so the various trade routes of Eurasia begin to centralize and coalesce around the Mongol courts. So it's not just a case that cultures are being drawn together. It's trade routes. It's trade goods as well. And of course, the Mongols have got the money to spend. So they can decide what they want and what they want suddenly becomes a great deal more in demand. And the outcome of this is remarkable. Now, the Mongols main capital is a place called karakoram, which is a stonewalled city, but most of the Mongols really big cities are huge wagon cities. And we should be imagining hundreds, possibly millions of animals, tens of thousands of wagons, and then hundreds possibly thousands of tents, some of which can accommodate several thousand people. And because the Mongols are just so incredibly wealthy. They're
Today, Explained
"karakoram" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Hi, I'm Kara Swisher. For decades, I've covered Silicon Valley, Washington and Hollywood, making sense of those worlds by talking directly to the people who shape them. Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Tony Fauci, Kim Kardashian, I've had the pleasure of grilling them all. Now I'm launching a new show called the Joe Rogan experience with Kara Swisher. Just kidding. It's actually called on with Kara Swisher and let me tell you it is on. No holds barred on the tough questions or on my opinions. On with Kara Swisher, launches September 26th from New York magazine and the vox media podcast network. Just look for on with Kara Swisher in your podcast app and hit follow or subscribe. Rings of power, The Little Mermaid reboot, Game of Thrones, something always happens with fantasy whenever characters of color are introduced. It's the black person sitting up being a knight or a mermaid that causes the hesitation. It's as much as the flutter of a dragon's wing or fairy dust. It's that profound. I'm Sam Sanders, join me on into it from vulture to hear about fantasies, race problem. Good girls and girls are listening to today's point. My name is zoha siddiqui. I am a journalist based on Pakistan and I cover the environment, technology and human rights. The karakoram is a mountain range that stretches from Pakistan to India to China and the highest point of the karakoram is the K two, which is located in Pakistan and it is the second highest mountain in the world. To the corporate glacier, which is in Pakistan's north, it's in a place called Pakistan. And it was an incredible sight because it's pinned up silence, right? Because you're so far away from civilization. And you can hear the sound of your own breath because it has such a high altitude. And then you can also hear this faint echo. And that seemed to echo is the glacier slowly melting. It's not a drip drip drip, but it's an echo as if there's some sort of movement taking place. And what that means is that the volume of the glaciers decreasing. And if you go see it right now, it's basically a gray mass of rock. Ice and sludge, because there have been landslides there recently. And it's located right at the foothills of the karakoram mountain range. And so the backdrop of the glaciers, this majestic, beautiful white mountain, and at the bottom there's this massive mass of gray ice rock and sludge that slowly making its way south. So in the north, you've got an abundance of glaciers over 7000. And in the south you've got a desert. You've got a river that runs from the north of the country right down to the south where it sinks into the Arabian sea. And so they've got deserts, mountains, but glaciers, you've got hills and valleys, and so there's a lot to see, but that also makes Pakistan extremely vulnerable to climate change, because when glaciers melt in the north, they increase the volume of water in the river, which then travels south inland villages and towns, which also form the country's breadbasket.
The Rich Roll Podcast
"karakoram" Discussed on The Rich Roll Podcast
"15% today. Okay, back to the show. Well, I want to change gears here. Let's talk about K two. I mean, it's been an interesting year and a half. For you guys in terms of expeditions. And challenges and loss. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, K two. I mean, it's ultimately a sad story, but came from also a really beautiful place. And something that Jen and I were able to share part of that journey and the physical space together, which was really beautiful. Coming out of COVID, thinking about expeditions, et cetera, mountain, Jenna had Jenna had trained for a year to climb Everest in the fall of 20, excuse me, in the spring of 2020, from the Chinese side. We had flights to China on April 4th, 2020. I want to hear from Jenna. That has been quite over there. Talk about getting your head around that. Yeah, I mean, obviously it will dovetail back into K two, but yeah, I mean, I really had raised my hand and said, can I climb Everest? Do you think we can do this? Do you think I can do this? And Colin was like, I think if you trained for it, sure. Totally think you can do it. And so we are living in Jackson hole. And I really did put my head down and I trained. I climbed up snow king every day. I did hit workouts, which is, you know, I'm not like the most. Go to the gym kind of person. But I did. I did it, and obviously Colin was very much so overseeing that. And sure enough, you know, the time was passing, and it had been a year, and it was March of 2020, and we were meant to fly to China to climb Everest together from the north side, and obviously that got shut down very quickly. And in the aftermath of that, of course, I was really upset at the time. I was like, oh man, I finally set my own personal goal, right? Not a calling goal. I spent my own goal. And it didn't work out. It didn't pan out. And so I think just the defeat of that was, I mean, it shook me enough to say, I'm not going to let that goal I'm just going to let it go. It wasn't meant to be, I guess. I'm kind of in that same moment where we described me at the Oregon coast where I'm kind of struggling with my own desire passion, 12 hour walk is born, same thing for you. You just were like, I'm done. I was like, we could push the training another year or whatever, and Jenna was just like, no. There's way bigger problems in the world. There's way too much going on. I don't need to hold on to that. It wasn't a childhood dream of mine. It really was kind of watching Colin in the mountains and experiencing that firsthand and knowing Friends, and I was like, just kind of like question mark. Like, maybe I could do it too. And then after that year, I was just like, I'm going to take my name out of the hat on that one. And then so then later in that year, the Himalayas both the Chinese and the police side were completely closed. The other part in the world where between China and Nepal 14, 8000 meter peaks or to the 14th tallest mountains in the world, the other region of the world is the karakoram in Pakistan. So there's 5 of the 14 tallest mountains in the world are in Pakistan, including K two, which is the second tallest mountain in the world. A little bit shorter than Everest, not a lot, but significantly more dangerous, significantly more challenging, technically. And the 14, 8000 meter peaks that have you seen 14, the nymphs movie or I haven't watched it yet. I still haven't gotten around there because everyone says it's unbelievable. Yeah, it's great. And nims is a part of this story as well on K two, but basically the 14 8000 meter peaks for catching people who haven't seen that movie or don't know the context of that. Those are the 14 tallest mountains in the world. And 8000 meters is roughly 26,000 feet. And that is sort of what's known as the death zone, the altitude above where it's the human body is slowly dying. Even with supplemental oxygen, you really can't survive up there for very long. And the mountains have all been climbed in summer. They've all been climbed solo. They've all been climbed lots of different ways. But only 13 out of the 14 of them have been climbed in winter. So winter, of course, being much more challenging than summer. The days are shorter, the temperatures are ridiculously cold instead of -30 or -40 looking at -70 -80. You're looking at ridiculous winds. Short days, so maybe only 7, 8 hours a daylight was 16 hours of dark, dark, cold night. And K two, although it had been attempted going back to the 80s of some of the best climbers in the world, have attempted it over time, had still never been climbed in winter. And so several public big publications had written about this winter K two climb as sort of the last great prize in high altitude mountaineering. And again, people have tried this even recently. People have tried this and really not come close. It's not like people have been just below the summit, but it's like really been this sort of very out of reach kind of project. And I guess dovetailing off my personality or other things that I've attempted. People are having that out there that carrot out there was definitely interesting to me. And it was also interesting timing, which ends up playing significantly into this entire story of K two, which is that people, since all these mountains have been closed for the better part of 2020, all these professional mountaineers around the world had been kind of stuck at home on the bench, right? And all of a sudden, Pakistan announces, Pakistan will be open to international climbing tourism. This winter. Everybody rushes in. And all of a sudden, you know, K two and winter, tons of winners, no one would be attempting it. And when someone did attempt that might be like three guys over there or like a group of Polish national team, ten guys went over there in 27, we had the date wrong by a little bit, but it's not like there was like lots of teams attempting this. Like if there ever was a team, it's like a small team or one person, like whatever, and all of a sudden, there were how many crazy number, but like 15 plus somewhere between like maybe 15 or 20 of the top climbers from around the world from all around the world and a strong Nepalese contingent. But like guys from all over the world from South America from Europe from all these different places and what ended up ultimately happening for large part was this guy named dawa who's a Sherpa really renowned climber had the world record for the youngest person to climb the 14 8000 meter peaks and he's like a businessman now runs a logistics company. He basically realized all these people were kind of chomping at the bit to do this and he was like, well, how about I set up the logistics to do this and everyone kind of comes under the same permit? Meaning you're going to climb independently from one another once you're on the mountain, but it's hard to get to K two in general, let alone in the middle of winter. You're talking about 200 bounty porters carrying for a hundred miles on the longest glacier in the world. The ball terror glacier. And really insane track to get in there. Lots of logistics and complicated. So long story short, most of us colluded and
TuneInPOC
"karakoram" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Hi, everybody. From wondering, welcome to another episode of tides of history. I'm Patrick Wyman. Thanks for joining me. At the heart of Eurasia sits the Caspian Sea, a vast, salty, inland body of water. The world's largest Lake. Its shores are fertile. It's full of fish, and it's so large that it's sometimes considered a sea in its own right, rather than a mere Lake. If we walk around its edges, stand on its shores and look first to the north and northeast, the vast open spaces of the Eurasian steppes stretched to the horizon. To the west are the Caucasus mountains, the towering chain of peaks running from the Black Sea to the Caspian, coming almost to the edge of the water. To the south, just on the other side of another mountain chain, lie the jagged highlands of the Iranian plateau. And finally, to the east, we see the arid semi deserts of Central Asia. Broken only by the lush river valleys of the amu darya and the syr darya, known to the ancients as the oxus and jaxartes. Beyond them are the impossible heights of the Hindu kush, the karakoram and the Himalayas. The land surrounding the Caspian formed the hinge of Eurasia. The frontiers, borderlands, they sit at the edges of the great civilizations of China, South Asia, and Mesopotamia. Far too often, they're treated as fringes or sideshows, rather than as centers of key historical processes in their own right. But this overlooks their importance. For many thousands of years, these regions have acted as gateways, barriers, homelands, and destinations. They've been conduits and sources of goods, people and ideas that transformed both the lands themselves and the civilization surrounding them. This was the case even deep in the prehistoric past at the very beginnings of the neolithic and the advent of agriculture. It remained true throughout the chalcolithic and the Bronze Age as well. When the Iranian plateau, the Caucasus and Central Asia served as the home of sophisticated societies. Today, we're going to try to understand this vast swath of the globe over the course of a few thousand years. The fact that we're less familiar with the kura araxes culture of the Caucasus, the elamites of Iran, and the bactria margiana archeological complex of Central Asia than with Mesopotamia or Egypt, says a lot more about the shortcomings of the modern world than the importance of these less known societies in the ancient one. Thankfully, new archeological work everywhere from Georgia to Turkmenistan, combined with the application of new techniques like ancient DNA, is shedding light on this less known, but not less important past. And in truth, we can't really understand Mesopotamia or the Indus Valley civilization or the world of the yamnaya and sintashta people on the step if we don't understand what was happening in the lands bordering them. On a basic level, we have to grasp that these societies were all interconnected. Maybe not in the precise way our globalized world is in the 21st century, but things that happened in one place affected things that happened in other places. People moved around, trading and making things. They migrated. They brought in new technologies, organizational concepts, and religious beliefs. By focusing on this hinge on the Caucasus and Iran and Central Asia, we're going to understand precisely how the mature Bronze Age world came into being. So.
TuneInPOC
"karakoram" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Hi, everybody. From wondering, welcome to another episode of tides of history. I'm Patrick Wyman. Thanks for joining me. At the heart of Eurasia sits the Caspian Sea, a vast, salty, inland body of water. The world's largest Lake. Its shores are fertile. It's full of fish, and it's so large that it's sometimes considered a sea in its own right, rather than a mere Lake. If we walk around its edges, stand on its shores and look first to the north and northeast, the vast open spaces of the Eurasian steppes stretched to the horizon. To the west are the Caucasus mountains, the towering chain of peaks running from the Black Sea to the Caspian, coming almost to the edge of the water. To the south, just on the other side of another mountain chain, lie the jagged highlands of the Iranian plateau. And finally, to the east, we see the arid semi deserts of Central Asia. Broken only by the lush river valleys of the amu darya and the syr darya, known to the ancients as the oxus and jaxartes. Beyond them are the impossible heights of the Hindu kush, the karakoram and the Himalayas. The land surrounding the Caspian formed the hinge of Eurasia. The frontiers, borderlands, they sit at the edges of the great civilizations of China, South Asia, and Mesopotamia. Far too often, they're treated as fringes or sideshows, rather than as centers of key historical processes in their own right. But this overlooks their importance. For many thousands of years, these regions have acted as gateways, barriers, homelands, and destinations. They've been conduits and sources of goods, people and ideas that transformed both the lands themselves and the civilization surrounding them. This was the case even deep in the prehistoric past at the very beginnings of the neolithic and the advent of agriculture. It remained true throughout the chalcolithic and the Bronze Age as well. When the Iranian plateau, the Caucasus and Central Asia served as the home of sophisticated societies. Today, we're going to try to understand this vast swath of the globe over the course of a few thousand years. The fact that we're less familiar with the kura araxes culture of the Caucasus, the elamites of Iran, and the bactria margiana archeological complex of Central Asia than with Mesopotamia or Egypt, says a lot more about the shortcomings of the modern world than the importance of these less known societies in the ancient one. Thankfully, new archeological work everywhere from Georgia to Turkmenistan, combined with the application of new techniques like ancient DNA, is shedding light on this less known, but not less important past. And in truth, we can't really understand Mesopotamia or the Indus Valley civilization or the world of the yamnaya and sintashta people on the step if we don't understand what was happening in the lands bordering them. On a basic level, we have to grasp that these societies were all interconnected. Maybe not in the precise way our globalized world is in the 21st century, but things that happened in one place affected things that happened in other places. People moved around, trading and making things. They migrated. They brought in new technologies, organizational concepts, and religious beliefs. By focusing on this hinge on the Caucasus and Iran and Central Asia, we're going to understand precisely how the mature Bronze Age world came into being. So.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"karakoram" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Up at the top of the hour back now to the BBC You're listening to the BBC World Service I'm Julian Marshall and this is news In Pakistan's Baluchistan province temperatures have repeatedly hit almost 50°C in the past few weeks These scorching temperatures are not unusual in the summer but they've arrived two months earlier with the relief that the monsoons offer months away These unseasonal temperatures are part of a larger heap wave that has gripped South Asia forcing those who can't to stay at home during the daylight Alice in creating critical shortages of power and water Pakistan's climate minister sherry Rahman says the country is facing an existential crisis as climate emergencies are being felt from the north to the south of the country It's been a very difficult transition from winter directly into summer We've had no spring literary for Pakistan all the way from the north to the south where we have very different ecologies and weather patterns across the country And both north and south have witnessed extreme weather events and they're very debilitating devastating impacts So in the north actually just now we are as warned experiencing what are known as glacial Lake outburst floods which we have many of because Pakistan is home to the highest number of glaciers in the world outside the polar region And these the Himalayas ranges are losing 17% of their ice and land mass due to the rising temperatures And what this does is it creates glacial lakes we have about 30 of these which are in very critical conditions as in they can burst at any time but we are worth 3044 of them And just yesterday we had one such Lake bursting and flooding in literary downing an entire bridge in the karakoram highway area in gilgit baltistan we took time to the action so we were able to divert a families and people but this is showing us how real and dangerous climate stresses for Pakistan It's quite literally here and now But as I understand it what you're getting at the moment is the sort of temperatures in spring The two might otherwise have got in summer why is that so much worse now We've had as much in a hundred years for instance and then April was no better one of the cities in the south Jacob about to be specific It's the hardest city on the planet the highest temperatures recorded over the last week Over the last two years we've seen very rapidly rising temperatures impact the lives and actual agricultural production And of course human settlements in art of Pakistan because as you know forced migrations also then take place from rural areas to cities where people feel safer but cities as you know can become heat islands So it's a real conundrum and we feel that these are the effects of changing weather patterns certainly and how is this affecting people's lives their ability to work what has been the impact on food production Well the impact on food production is very high Pakistan is.
Against The Odds
"karakoram" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Whoever they aged by, they literally, I think I'm saying exactly what they thought. They literally thought that these bad people were coming for them. And yeah, it was hard for them. They had why wouldn't you believe that someone's going to creep into your home one night and get revenge for what you did today? Yeah, exactly. It might seem irrational? Yeah. But why wouldn't it happen? Well, how did 9 11 impact the climbing community? Did it change people's approach to going out to these remote spots to climb? Well, if you remember a post 9 11, nothing was the same in terms of flying to another country. The era of relaxed travel was over. For a long time going to Asia places like Pakistan, where there's lots and lots of climbing that foreigners go and do. Pretty much anywhere in the third world, was shut down for a long time. So mountaineering and certainly going to the valleys that the four Americans went to, that was shut down for a long time, obviously. Going to the Himalayas and the karakoram mountains was shut down for a while. The big impact was the impact on local people who rely on foreign trekking and tourism and mountain climbing expeditions. That business was stopped and so the people who ran the little hotels or were the porters and rented you pack animals and yaks to get into the mountains. They didn't have the business anymore. It was very hard on them. Ultimately, what do you think we can learn from this story? What do you take home from it? I guess in retrospect I look at the book over the edge as really about the loss of innocence. It's about the world's loss of innocence. Really it's about pre 9 11 versus post 9 11. Loss of innocence of four young climbers who start on that expedition to climb big cliffs in Kyrgyzstan, they start out as one kind of people and come back changed by their experience. How do you think the experience changed them as a whole? 20 years have passed since it happened. I think they've taken that many years to really think about it to put it in its place to examine who they were then and what they are now. Almost no one if it hasn't experienced remotely like that unless you actually inaction in a war, you know? Most people who I know who've seen action in war experiences, you know, they talk about the whole thing as if it's a terribly stressful thing that takes half a lifetime to come to terms with. Well, same for them, I think. What's climbing like in these regions today? We'll probably about ten years ago. Word got out that the region, the karasu valley areas was a safe again, and climbers from different countries started going there and I've met a number of Americans a number of British French quite a number of nationalities have gone back and climbed happily and peacefully again. And I'm sure the borders are more heavily policed. So I think climbing is happening again in karasu area. I'd love to go back personally. I think it's one of the most beautiful climbing places I ever visited. Stepping back, I'm curious, why do people climb? And what are you searching for when you're out there? It's the hottest question you can ask a climber and I would I would say almost any answer that has been given is quite lacking because it's such an abstract thing that you do. For most people it makes no sense. They can't make sense out of climbing. And they'd probably be amused to learn that climbers find it hard to make sense of climbing. Like I can't make sense of golf, but I don't doubt that people love golf. So climbers just is something in them that makes sense to climb a rock. Yeah. To master the movement challenges to get fit enough to stomp up a mountain, you actually kind of celebrating the physical side of yourself when you become a climber. But you have to hone a mental skill set too, where you actually have to be fairly adept at a suffering, putting up with cold, getting tired, that sort of thing, and in Poland, they've actually refined it to a little phrase that basically says that climbing is the art of suffering. And it sounds a bit glib, but that's about the best I can come up with. I know you live in Utah these days. Are you still climbing? I do. I still climb. I'm more recreational in my climbing than I used to be. I still love to climb. I don't think I'll ever stop climbing of my own accord. Well, Greg child, thank you so much for being here today. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. If you like our show, please give us a 5 star rating and a review. Follow against the odds on Apple podcasts. Amazon music, the wondery app or wherever you're listening right now. Join one plus in the wonder yap, listen one week early and ad free. In the episode notes, you'll find some links and offers from our sponsors. Please support them. By supporting them, you help us offer the show for free. This is the final episode of our series, rock climbers abducted. If you'd like to learn more about this event, we highly recommend the book over the edge by Greg child. I'm your host, Cassie de pecol. This episode was produced by Peter akuni. Brian white is our associate producer. Our audio engineer is Sergio enriquez. Our senior producer is Andy Herman. Our executive producers are Stephanie Jen's and Marshall Louie. For wonder..
The Big Story
"karakoram" Discussed on The Big Story
"June bentiu. The big story the podcast. Maybe the headline making news for you. And i'm your host and let's round of talks between. The two countries comes on the heels of repeated intrusions by chinese troops in the basement starting from thirty first august more than one hundred billion soldiers entered attractions bara hoodie region according to hindustan times report. The bela troops damaged a footbridge before retreating to the side and then on twenty september over one hundred fifty soldiers entered a not petitions young. Say near the devan region and according to an inexpensive even had a minor altercation with the indian troops now coming back to the talks both sides blame the other for the failure. The indian delegation the proteins under the talks was led by left in general begic men and major general. Lewellen that the chinese side. This of talks was focused on hot springs area. Also known as patrolling point. Fifteen or fifteen because last fiction point the manami wants to dissolve as disengagement has been completed in the other areas according to the statement. It made gordon good. Constructive suggestions and emphasize that resolution of the remaining areas would facilitate progress in bilateral relations. However china's defense ministry in a statement released just a few hours after the meeting slammed india for persisting in its gordon court unreasonable and unrealistic demands which added difficulties to the negotiations and in global times which is china's communist party mouthpiece. A statement read that india. Putin could not get the bottle debate. Once and that. If gordon good india starts award it will definitely lose. She concord policies that china statements reflect a breakdown in communications between the two sides given that notes regarding statements are exchange well before they're published reminding these not right extreme positions be barely statement the unreasonable unrealistic expectations of india and bill more caustic comments from the google. Times would stay tune about Thirteen will not a border. There wants to and also the current state of affairs on the motor in the past one and a half years so be it reflects to breakdown in communication between the tool in gender the north on exchange well before and soybean surprising they have used these wars which means there is a problem in communication between the two sides so that it was a very significant common rover times has made which means days no going back on wing back on china's strength so the statement from lower times was new delhi needs to be clear about one thing to get the border the way it wants If it starts award it. We definitely loads any political. Maneuvering and pressure will be more by china. So that comment Indicates that Betty's no further discussion on that issue. They want to start from his strenght. Points and previous escort commander level talks. Both sides agreed to back down and four out of the sixth section points which be fourteen in golden valley seventeen eighteen gocha post and the de escalation of patrolling troops on the north and southbound sipping also. Now be fifteen. Which is the hot springs. Area of been a point of contention previous talks well. According to an inexpensive both from april china had agreed to pull back troops but then later refused to vacate data however boots is in april agreed to reduce the troops sense from a company level which is about one hundred one twenty soldiers to platoon level. Which is around thirty soldiers along with military vehicles according to an inexpensive put. Bp fifteen was an important post even during the nineteen sixty two conflict where it served as a company headquarters for the minami and that report for the states that people fifteen is an area in which both sides agreed on the alignment of the so. Why is john refusing to budge on the hot springs area. What strategic significance doesn't hold mr kondapalli basin and you remember the b. Since march april last year the tension points on the lawn engine points at hot springs. Attention points for because there were frequent Rhinestones and then on june fifteenth. You had these bob. Wide fencing bats and the state of the the nails started You know acts and of course there were also these reportable starring role insane. You know smashing hits the springs here. The ordinances geopolitical location. Because that would have given passages to be salt boned and did not gone northbound tour debut. Donut bay gordy and solve bone ports. The uncle so so it is strategically located in two directions. Not insult Is important because from debut the foothills of the karakoram ranges darkies petrol. Point one to ten of those points have to be affected by the by the military moments so the road that was built between a double shock and the debu not that rolls up to the karakoram ranges the southern foothills of the karakoram ranges so hard spring is midday and so it would have equal kind of equidistant between the not and the south marty's strategic significance of our things Because the chinese oxford in advocating this so it would have consequences for applying towards if there is a situation in debut on our will incomes of the karakoram ranges. china's reluctance to disengage hot springs is concerning given that it has now started building infrastructure on their side of the bottle on the eve of the meeting army chief-of-staff general nominee at an the conclave. Said that the belda by china in the eastern deduct region is a matter of concern and signals that they are gordon. Code here to stay. Boots is currently have fifty thousand to sixty thousand troops each along with auto guns air defense assets and tanks at the border responding to a question. Gentlemen ravening added that the build up of forces along the border suggests that the chinese are hugh to stay for a second continues window and that couldn't could be be a kind of a line of control situation similar to the india-pakistan bottle. Mr kondapally agrees militarized. In in winter. Months is a possibility but believes that. India and china and not be able to afford the heavy troop deployment and military resources revived for long-term their teams to be short view. I believe me be headed in their direction. Bartended medium to long-term. I do not think china can afford this. India can afford this to amply militarize the water areas. It's not practical..
DUH:A Bangladeshi Podcast
"karakoram" Discussed on DUH:A Bangladeshi Podcast
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Monocle 24: The Briefing
"karakoram" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
"Coming up on today's program the only path to Durable lasting and just end to the conflict is through negotiation is through a political agreement and ultimately is through Through compromise the us secretary of state. Anthony blinken says. Compromise is the only way to end afghanistan's conflicts but is the taliban intent on reconciliation. Also had we'll unpack a geek week of political wrangling in washington. Dc and monaco's lexicon only of will tell us why. The austrians are so fond of gash class. Nick minnie's will have an urbanism round of for us. What's on your radar this week. We'll be looking at seoul's rental blackberry and public space in san francisco looking forward to that. Thanks very much nick. All of that right here on the briefing with me chris. Tarmac to me markus hippie. The united nations has warned that afghanistan is on the brink almost two decades after us led forces entered the conflict to counter taliban advances. The fundamentalist militia are once again taking ground across the country with reports. That civilian casualties are rising by the day in response. The embattled government in kabul has imposed a month-long curfew in the hopes that it will stop the taliban from taking major urban centers. Let's get more on this now. With paul rodgers international security advisor at open democracy. Paul is a regular contributor here on monocle twenty four pellets. Start with this. Un report record number of civilian casualties as foreign troops are withdrawing and also it. It struck me that. The nature of these civilian casualties. How these are happening is changing. The fighting is taking on a more distinctly afghan fighting afghan quality. How is that impacting Realities on the ground. It's impacting the very strongly. Europe strategic corrector. In what you say about the nature of the casualties Basically foreign air strikes of any sort of course very few couches civilian casualties because there are very few of them. What is happening. Mostly is lots of conflict across rural areas now coming towards the cities Centrally kandahar's one. Which is really concerned. That's kind of hus- it the prophets and you're getting many civilians killed as taliban bit by bit takeover. The control of the country probably extends to more than half of the province's including substantial ones. I includes many provinces around the boulders. this also means now controlling major border crossings particular ones where iran i'd also pakistan down in the southeast of the also. Now control their. What hand corridor which is crucially important jeep. Take because that's not long finger kind of stan. Because right through to china that actually provides a direct land connection although not very possible to present between the two countries of the taliban took control of that three or four days so essentially bit by bit the talent bang over but inevitably. They're a very heavy civilian. Casualties and the un reckons that they more or less doubled mouth in the last six months. As bad as that's essentially what do you. What do you expect looking at the situation evolving and celebration making inroads us. far us. the border with our would you expect for example china to be pulled into this conflict dot directly but it is a huge a significant move. The point is that if china Recognize his that. It has an easier route into afghanistan. Note principally for truth so much more on the economic side because of the huge mineral resources in the rest remember that china has already invested heavily in afghanistan if it basically can do some soul to deal with. The taliban assuming trying to appropriate does of the taliban sooner or later will take full control than trying to be a major direct player for the point is well. It'd be costly to build a connection On the eastern side of the border. It's not that far about one hundred kilometers for for the karakoram highway which was already very much being expended. China was perfectly capable of building Certainly a nine or ten month year open serious road link throat afghanistan. If they were able to do that in the next four years were actually alter the geopolitics of the region but that depends hugely or whether china can negotiate state negotiate agreement with an income taliban control resp- basically also prevents the taliban allowing people to go into china To fight with the week against the chinese companies says a complicated geopolitics. But that's small news. Points of the taliban take care of that. Corridor is actually very significant. Well complicated geopolitics as you say. Is there a. Which one do you feel at this point. That china is the major geopolitical actor that we need to worry about. There seemed to be so many potentially involved as foreign troops are pulling out not yet but it could well be that supposed to make the major actors of president regionally obviously iran. But that's born in the west of of Of kind of star in iran is not particularly friendly with the taliban goes right back to the kitty those diplomats twenty years or so ago and the iranians are very cautious but on the other hand it's important trading the iranians really. What about the amount of opium which comes over into their own country reckon estan they will maintain influence in herat and other cities to the extent. The can pakistan is obviously highly significant. The indians a huge reward. That the taliban we'll take over because they will aid the connect with pakistan. And then you have the russians as well. Who always looking for the main chance. They in turn will concerns about the potential rising power of china. We already know that. The being taliban declan delegations in beijing in recent months talking informally with the chinese so while it is not the big one at present. I suspect his country the one to watch in the coming months. If and when the taliban take full control he exactly now we mentioned already. The embezzle to governments in kabul has imposed amongst long curfew hoping eatables stop the taliban from taking major urban centers. How do you expect the situation to evolve. Is the government at the moment destroying into delay. Something that's inevitable. I think it probably is. But how long do they will be as fumbled tickled to tell The taliban do not seem to be any hurry to basically take kabul which causes the key of they had to contend with various militias. The northern lots may well regroup. You have basically individual ethnic groups who feel really threatened by the taliban zara about two million strong mostly in a rural location there are quite a few in kabul on their foaming the militias say it would be easy to take over completely to the taliban may well by the time possibly even till next spring while i rather doubt that on the other hand the cuts could be very quick. 'cause as we've been seeing the americans always drawing virtually everything will be gone by the end of august. Apart from the troops defending the diplomats and the rest of the united states is reluctant to invest too heavily in a long-term remote air war to maintain the afghan government in power. I suspect whatever they say in public washington resigned to the fact that the taliban will be pretty full control of the country within a year which is disastrous has so many ways not least for for women right across the country for many afghans who've returns afghanistan to help build the country. Thanks very much for that paul. That was paul rogers from open democracy. Now here's marcus with the day's other news headlines thanks grace. Tunisia's president has sucked the prime minister and suspended parliament following violent protests across the country. Brisy danny kaye. It announced that he would take charge with help from a new prime minister bus. His political opponents say the move amounts to aku america's leading infectious disease expert has warned that grown virus cases are surging among the unvaccinated. Dr anthony forward. She says the delta variant of kobe nineteen was driving the spike in parts of the us with low vaccination rates he added that officials were considering revising mosque guidance. Italy has asked european states descend firefighting aircraft to help tame fires that have swept across parts of the island of sardinia. The italian foreign ministry says the civil protection authority had issued the request and that it was grateful for help that was being provided by italy's neighbors and finally the show has become the last english county to adopt its own flag it features. A rendering of the territory's adopted animal folks in full sprints below a five petal flower. You can find out much more about leicestershire's new flag by hitting tamar.
Conversations
"karakoram" Discussed on Conversations
"Emily as so when. I met mal duff. Decent you you wrote man a knife. I said yes he said look. I'm going an expedition in six months to mushtaq tau and the himalayas. Why don't you come and climb this. And because then had drink. And i never thought seem again. Yeah sure why not. Why not and. that's what happened and about weeklies walked into my house. Banged on the door walked in and said is there. If you want to say war so the himalayas man which tag toa karakoram told to our sponsor. He wants you all. You have to write a book it and you know trying to talk with us not climbing before these along at this point i had to come clean. See well sensing. I do malcolm. I've never claimed anything. I am in a hill walked I love the scottish hilter. I walked up in but nothing steep because second problem was i've always been seriously scared of heights. Going up among monument or something. Scott monuments and edward really makes my life fuel wobbly and it stains shooting electricals. Charges happened and as i said this to come and i never technically claimed never claimed in winter. And i'm really scared of heights and so okay get used to the and. Fortunately i'm a i'm a guy now going to training now in six months you should be to at least get killed in the mountain. Claims with up to a certain point said twenty thousand feet. That should be enough. I love talkies and you can keep in touch with us for the rest of it and then write this book about. So how did how did you train. How did you learn to climb in six months. The be ready for the himalayas. You are started running until long. Four shorts are sorry. I was young enough to get fit enough for hospital a lot of ups and ups all that then molotov to me to drank who mostly for the winter. But he had a shailene that was part of his living. Who's teaching claiming. I told me this how to strap on crampons and use ice axes and took it from there. Rogues knots harnesses. What about the the fear of heart sanjay. Did you try to address. It didn't go away. All that could help was Concentrated really hard. What is right in front of me. When i was going up. And you're going up as low as jianlin and some sheer fear. Anger feel becomes angered. I think is going to go to the hard-bitten news. Always when you had to stop pow up a claim to be and then billing the other on his rope and then he's touch down and then you just felt high fell for and so two standard. The rock right in front of me. Turn to think about the geology of the crystals and funded me on the ice for nations. So only pure concentration and sensiti and sometimes adrenaline but never got that much better. I the point was that. I really wanted to go to the himalayas. I wanted an adventure. I never expected any adventures with raising life. And i was fine with her. But when someone offers you a gig later. I knew i'd reproach myself the rest of my life if i didn't call soon place mostly about fear again. Fear of not of how barrett feel. If i didn't go maybe yoki i'll do it. What went through your mind when you stood before this. This is tower in the himalayas. That you had gone to. Clark peachable already my mind. Let's say i thought Is very big. The first problem was was getting to the mysterious part of the mountain. You had to go through one of these. As falls which is a sham was occurs at the end of a glacier was it kind of draws off nightfall was like the winter brain who's shoes like have never says will very dangerous place kind of place. That climbers don't like because it's well they call objective danger danger. They can control towers collapsed. Crevasses open up snow bridges fall in. They don't like that kind of thing. Multi-use all dangerous and scary. So i didn't take the ice for that much more seriously but we had some really hairy times in that because once the sun hits it temperature starts to rise in his bridges and towers start collapsing orange and huge blocks in the size of houses. Come down very dangerous place. You gotta get through as quickly as you can but you gotta eighteen thousand feet. So you're not getting that much oxygen and you're carrying heavy pack so as a limited how fast you can actually do it so every time you went through that because we built a series who camps among. You're taking a risk canoe it. Everybody knew after the we prayer and went for Did that first trip make you hungry for more of that kind of climbing. Didn't i didn't expect ever do another trip. That wasn't they'd then stunning. But while mild sitting in a caffeine role pindi waiting for the monsoon into his who joined the to norwegian some one of the mountains next to us up to baltimore and they told us two of the Being killed on the way down so terrible we knew them a bit but when they went away. Ma who'd been very quiet said. How'd you fancy coming to overstate. Say how well those guys have a permit to over attend year q. I think i can buy from them because they won't be going now because to the main claim was a dead and i said i didn't think interested nevis months old hat and very interested in mister bedside service. Very interested in the unclaimed ridge. The only made to retailers left undone everest so we can raise a hundred thousand pounds. You tossed off the figure can go into bed. No one's been tend to bet since the chinese invasion thirties. Wouldn't that be great again. I thought he was joking issue. Let's do there and about nine months later. There we were into today and fallow palace. What was tibet in one thousand nine hundred five like very different from now. We were in lots of a week waiting for our gear to come through the. We saw unheard and not a single european or larrikin for that matter. It's very very different now. But it was felt tibetan those building going on but there hadn't been open and the chinese were fairly relaxed if you go into people's houses to houses without being you know followed watched and the rural parts of tibet. Just incredible huge acres of nothing and suddenly a man. On a horse repeal and some yaks and people strange over. They thought we will be to us. Had red hair and and one one of us had very blonde hair and blue eyes. But they started us. We started in. It was one survey buddhist country so the goal is prayer flags and prayer wheels everywhere. Say scotland turn goodest absolutely lovely purity about that culture and that county that we all loved when we're coming towards evers first time we saw even the most hard-bitten of the guys who grown up on these photos of everest from this site. All the prewar trips were on the basic which just stood there and somebody said it's very big because it towered above everything else on those in front of our lane is mind boggling big going the steepest hardest donnette and did you climb that as well andrew. The bank no crimes to twenty thousand feet on. This is quite high of Well.
Conversations
"karakoram" Discussed on Conversations
"Emily as so when. I met mal duff. Decent you you gregg wrote man a knife i said yes. He said look. I'm going in an exhibition in six months to mushtaq tau and the himalayas. Why don't you come and climb this. And because then had drink. And i never thought seem again. Yeah sure why not. Why not and. that's what happened and about weeklies walked into my house. Banged on the door walked in and said is there. If you want to say war so the himalayas man which tag toa karakoram told to our sponsor. He wants you all. You have to write a book it and you know trying to talk with us not climbing before these law at this point i had to come clean. See well sensing. I do malcolm. I've never claimed anything. I am in a hill walked I love the scottish hilter. I walked up in but nothing steep because second problem was i've always been seriously scared of heights. Going up among monument or something. Scott monuments and edward really makes my life fuel wobbly and it stains shooting electricals. Charges happened and as i said this to come and i never technically claimed never claimed in winter and a movie scared of heights and so okay get used to the and. Fortunately i'm a. I'm a guy now going to training now. In six months you should be to at least get killed in the mountain. Claims with up to a certain point said twenty thousand feet. That should be enough. I love talkies and you can keep in touch with us for the rest of it and then write this book about. So how did how did you train. How did you learn to climb in six months. The be ready for the himalayas. You are started running until long four shorts sorry. I was young enough to get fit enough for a hospital a lot of ups and ups all that then molotov to me to drank who mostly for the winter. But he had a shailene that was part of his living. Who's teaching claiming. I told me this how to strap on crampons and use ice axes and took it from there. Rogues knots harnesses. What about the the fear of heart sanjay. Did you try to address. It didn't go away. All that could help was Concentrated really hard. What is right in front of me. When i was going up. And you're going up as low as jianlin and some sheer fear. Anger feel becomes anger. Thing is gonna do going to the hard-bitten news. Always when you had to stop pow up a claim to be and then billing the other on his rope and then he's touch down and then you just felt high fell for and so two standard. The rock right in front of me turn to think about the geology of the crystals and funded me on the ice for nations so only pure concentration and sensiti and sometimes adrenaline but never got that much better. I the point was that. I really wanted to go to the himalayas. I wanted an adventure. I never expected any adventures with raising life. And i was fine with her. But when someone offers you a gig later. I knew i'd reproach myself the rest of my life if i didn't call soon place mostly about fear again. Fear of not of how barrett feel. If i didn't go maybe yoki i'll do it. What went through your mind when you stood before this. This is tower in the himalayas. That you had gone to. Clark peachable already my mind. Let's say i thought Is very big. The first problem was was getting to the mysterious part of the mountain. You had to go through one of these. As falls which is a sham was occurs the end of a glacier was it kind of draws off nightfall was like the winter brain shoes. Like have never says will very dangerous place kind of place. That climbers don't like because it's well they call objective danger danger they can control. Ice towers collapsed. Crevasses open up snow bridges fall in. They don't like that kind of thing. Multi-use all dangerous and scary. So i didn't take the ice for that much more seriously but we had some really hairy times in that because once the sun hits it temperature starts to rise in his bridges and towers start collapsing orange and huge blocks in the size of houses. Come down very dangerous place. You gotta get through as quickly as you can but you gotta eighteen thousand feet. So you're not getting that much oxygen and you're carrying heavy pack so as a limited how fast you can actually do it so every time you went through that because we built a series who camps among. You're taking a risk canoe it. Everybody knew after the we prayer and went for did that first trip. Make you hungry for more of that kind of climbing. Didn't i didn't expect ever do another trip. That wasn't they'd then stunning. But while mild was sitting in a caffeine role pindi waiting for the monsoon into his. Who joined the to norwegian some one of the mountains next to us up to baltimore and they told us two of the Being killed on the way down so terrible we knew them a bit but when they went away. Ma who'd been very quiet said. How'd you fancy coming to overstate. Say how well those guys have a permit to over attend year q. I think i can buy from them because they won't be going now because to the main claim was a dead. I said i didn't think interested nevis months old hat and very interested in mister bedside service very interested in the unclaimed ridge. The only made to retailers left undone everest so we can raise a hundred thousand pounds. You tossed off the figure can go into bed. No one's been tend to bet since the chinese invasion thirties. Wouldn't that be great again. I thought he was joking issue. Let's do there and about nine months later. There we were into today and fallow palace. What was tibet in one thousand nine hundred five like very different from now. We were in lots of the week waiting for our gear to come through the. We saw unheard and not a single european or larrikin for that matter. It's very very different now. But it was felt tibetan those building going on but there hadn't been open and the chinese were fairly relaxed if you go into people's houses to houses without being you know followed watched and the rural parts of tibet. Just incredible huge acres of nothing and suddenly a man. On a horse repeal and some yaks and people strange over. They thought we will be to us. Had red hair and and one one of us had very blonde hair and blue eyes. But they started us. We started in. It was one survey buddhist country so the goal is prayer flags and prayer wheels everywhere. Say scotland turn goodest lovely purity about that culture and that county that we all loved when we're coming towards evers first time we saw even the most hard-bitten of the guys who grown up on these photos of everest from this site. All the prewar trips were on the basic which just stood there and somebody said it's very big because it towered above everything else on those in front of our. Eileen is mind boggling big going the steepest hardest donnette. And did you climb that as well. Andrew the bank no crimes to twenty thousand feet on. This is quite high of Well.
Podcast RadioViajera
"karakoram" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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The Vaping Fix
"karakoram" Discussed on The Vaping Fix
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Real Estate Coaching Radio
"karakoram" Discussed on Real Estate Coaching Radio
"The person who owned the most residential real estate in the world was the queen. Yes and i believe. The monarchy still owns a ton a ton. I know a lot of downtown. London is still monarch owned. Yeah well so down to the point where they have to use a specific color of white to paint it which also happens to be owned that paint is also owned by royalty. We weren't a tour in this is a long time ago and you do when you're downtown london. You pass just miles and miles and miles of these white townhomes. They're not really white little off white and that would lead just said you don't own them they're on by the queen and essence and she also owns the only company that makes the paint. That's the only accepted paint color for on the buildings. And so you know that's called making money coming and going yes still this kind of fascinating but the biggest a owner of residential property in the world now is black rock and yeah okay so really with this story. I think. I thought you'd kind of find this passing. The title is a big mistake triggered the gates of hell blaze. Have you ever heard this before. Haven't good. I finally found one that you had said yes okay. This is the first time i've read this. Good clunky quote. You're only human is a phrase used to excuse all manner of sins but some human errors carry greater longer-lasting consequences than others in the seventies one. Such miscalculation tested the weight bearing capacity of an oil mine which later turned out to be a large pocket of natural gas. Oops yeah having put an immense rig on top of this pocket. The engineers garp as a huge crater filled with natural gas formed. Fearful of how the gas might affect neighboring wildlife and communities. A quick fix was settled on. This was to fire that burned off the gas in a matter of weeks. There's no way of fda on there's no way of fires adversely affect neighboring communities and wildlife. Now that's how different people are in the seventies. There probably standing around thinking about a way to take care of the problem of the excess gas while smoking their cigarettes. You know brilliant. Yeh let's just light a fire okay. The story begins in the heart. Of turkmenistan's karakoram desert which was part of the soviet union back in nineteen hundred two. You listeners. there we think we do. The soviets were in pursuit of oilfields and having detected what they believed to be a bountiful source in the desert. They mounted a rigging station including a sizeable and heavy drill to drilling began. It became quickly apparent that they had misjudged the nature of the beast. Instead of drilling into oil they had set up a hefty operation of an enormous pocket of natural gas. The rig soon collapsed creating enormous hole which is known as the vaseline crater darva was two hundred thirty feet across and sixty six feet deep and it's collapsed led to the domino effect that saw creators collapsing across the landscape. Each new crater came more natural gas. Which is mostly made up of methane. This presented a problem as methane has an unfortunate habit of soaking up all the available oxygen in the air fearing for the lives of local communities and wildlife. the scientists did what so many have done when faced with the problem and tried setting. It on fire. Was that the old school plugging in. Did there was a method to the madness as it was expected burning off the natural gas which is take weeks and then the air quality of the caricom desert would continue as normal hearing lay the next valley as it was revealed that this was a gross miscalculation in the flames..
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"karakoram" Discussed on COACHCAST Brasil
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The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Travel to Northern Pakistan
"Like to welcome to the show. David Harden from travel worn SATCHEL DOT com. Who's come to talk to us about northern Pakistan? David welcome to the show. Thank you Chris. Thank you at least to be. Your accent is clearly not one from northern Pakistan. We're talking T- well you're in the UK. Near Windsor what led you to Pakistan give you the shortened version. But when I was eighteen. I decided to travel overland from the UK to Australia. And I could as far as Afghanistan before you realized you'd run out of land. It was not in the Russians. Got In the way so yes. Well the happens doesn't it tells away two years and decided that still WanNa girl on the Silk Roads still interested Islamic culture and art and architecture and filling in the gaps. Ever since. I've sort of done Australia and Southeast Asia and all of Europe and a few of the songs but Pakistan is always there the one that I needed to to tick off really well in you chose northern Pakistan on this particular trip which as we were talking before hand you said is quite different from southern Pakistan and that would be a whole different trip. North and south is very different. I mean the north. It's cooled in those areas and they three huge mountain ranges. So you have the to the West. You have the Hindu Kush in the sense of you have the character forms and then surrounded on the north and east by the Himalayas. And they're absolutely wonderful mountain ranges but as you get further south. Islamabad where I flew into the great trunk. Road becomes planes. Sunset becomes desert would way down to Karachi New Arabian Sea. So yeah very two distinct areas. Shall we start them in? Islamabad actually just flew into Islamabad as bad as modern city. One of the interesting says the city right next to it as well. Andy which is the ancient city but Islamabad is the modern city Pakistan pill. Much longer grid lines are easy to navigate. I would say that actually just before I started this trip on originally planned to buy a motorbike in Islamabad an travel up through the Karakoram highway and then head off into various places. I'd read about in various books to say that I spoke to that is a big Pakistan community here in the UK. And I have up the friends one. Who's a Kashmiri? And he said well to be honest. I know you're motorcyclist but the roads are something else and I would recommend a jeep at least so you'd better listen to this sort of thing. They listen to him and I got myself a cheap and a guide to me actually at Islamabad airport. I spoke at the moment number weeks number of months. Really sending out my tinman. He can find out about what I want to and that was great and so I had this a jeep drive and I have to say it was probably the best decision. I made an enormously. I would travel alone and make my way round but I think this would have been a journey too far. How did you find a jeep and a driver a Kashmiri gentlemen here in the UK who promotes northern Pakistan but wonderful gentleman and he put me in touch with Earth's people over the and I came up with one Sean who you turn out to be absolutely brilliant and good thing was that. He's his the Chinnery but often is not. We will turn off the rodent gun sale. This liquid interesting here. I suggest we don't do this. And I think the question slips or went what about safety because one sure yeah this image of cool so Pakistan and especially the northern areas and you know I I thought of the trip I plan was to go up towards promised so and Eko took care of it. Sometimes Chris when you meet someone. They have absolute confidence. That you've made a really good decision. They already felt towards the back end of the trip. We ended up in a shallow. He said near the Afghanistan border he said had I gone two weeks earlier suggested shallow harassed security reasons and it's nice having someone who has local intelligence so to speak and he was always on his phone is always checking where we were not set up. There wasn't one time the only time was rather Longley wanting planted in someone's house and it was an old soldier. I didn't notice but his granddaughter sent his granddaughter all and having a cup of tea with him dump. She walked in with this shotgun undecided K. And he said I started brandishing. The shotgun around me and I was okay Maybe I made a mistake too much of a price to pay for a cup of tea but it turned out that he wanted to show me the gun which was made in combat nineteen sixty in Birmingham the UK because as from the UK and then he was crowded this so I mean that's the momentarily. I felt unsafe that that was it. That was the extent to how I felt and say in Pakistan excellent now you said as I said Islamabad. You said that's a modern city. It sounded like in your tone I was hearing so I didn't spend a lot of time Islam Abbad. I was more interested in the mountain. I sort of pasta very quickly. In fact which we left about an hour nine did we did come back so actually to see Faisal mosque. Okay which is a really beautiful most very modern initiative about nine thousand nine hundred and again a very very beautiful most news in the foothills of the Himalayas. It's great visit down as the last place of his. But I'll tell you about that. I if I may so folks in about nine thousand nine hundred. Eighty eight defies most because in Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Stunt up the hundred and twenty million dollars. Us to build it as one does the money partly he fis but what is interesting is he. Made a competition to will be architects. Come up with the design. Took you shocked. The name one is an Basti. The whole architecture on a Bedouin. Tent shot was pretty interesting in the appealed to King Faisal and he's a magnificent structure because it's like an eight sided tend to really doesn't like a tent and so big on this enormous white marble and gray marble and you just see it for miles driving towards thinking okay. Looks Okay and something. You just don't know the ten minutes down the road you think. I'm sure I should have been by now this grid system of Islam about so you go up. It's the end of the road unless they just ended up votes off the Bat. So twenty minutes you eventually get close to it and then you start to really appreciate the enormity of small the structure and get three hundred thousand people praying ally inside. I think it's ten thousand but with the porticos and the data coca grounds. You've got three hundred thousand people. Pray there and it was real highlight. Visit every interested in style of architecture. But one thing is that if people do visit to you have to take your shoes and men and this white marble and greyish sort of marble and it wasn't a particularly sunny hot day but every time I stepped off the white mob wants the gray marble. My feet wants to get an angle for a pit shuttle. Take a shortcut to the record. My feet was scolded eventually got in as well but that just finished prayer and like go up to the main entrance to get inside to have a look at this incredible space inside and they said No. I'm sorry you can't come in and I said well look. I sort of come with away from London. See this is. This is typical of buckets. Johnny people that they will try and be as helpful as possible really nice and he said okay look you should really go with this young man and he spoke to the man order when we rolled around the back this young man to be around the back and there was a back door and he took my camera with me. He said look no pitches inside and just tap a low. I thought this really really nice touch and again to tread on the carpet I saw rob and really nice and re serene place children. Having lessons and really great atmosphere. I came back and said I gave him my camera and come back and I was sort of going to complaints because everyone in that had come phones. So fees and pitches thinking well. I was lucky enough to be let in so I wasn't going to push that but really worth of visit. This is a lot of history to this place. That modern architecture ignace absolutely stunning in the surroundings of the hills with the backdrop of the foothills of the Himalayas. It's a
Counting Countries
Kausar Hussain, Co-Founder of Untamed Borders, on Visiting Pakistan and Afghanistan
"Are going to have a brief conversation with Coser Hussein. One of the founders of untamed borders in the we guide in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Cows are welcome to counting countries. Displease tell me a little bit about yourself. Hi I'm saying. I'm the CO founder unto borders of Fixer and journalist addicted to green tea addicted to green. Not Okay I enjoy good. Glass of tea is law and you mentioned untamed borders. Tell me a little bit about your role there. I'm the head guy responsible for both Pakistan and Afghanistan onto borders specializes in bringing travels to challenging destinations like Somalia Yemen Iraq and Syria case some very popular opt or destinations for people who are chasing one ninety three and then some What's talk about Pakistan Forbid Pakistan Astana is making some great strides and improving the tourism situation. They switched to so it went from one of the most difficult visas to becoming coming up pretty straightforward visa. So one more reason to visit this country another challenge that's been Hurting Pakistan's understands tourism is the Security Situation Sofi can Kausar what's the security situation like now impacts there will were the last five years a skewed acuity situation has improved. Dramatically government has made a major commitment and effort and stabilizing the country over the last several years through military operations and community outreach reach today the majority of the country stable and safe with the exception of dry Blazevic domain challenging. That's great to hear for travelers as well goes for all the people of Pakistan That the government is making having some great success in that area There's a lot to seem Pakistan stand but other what a tourist buxton is current currently untouched by tourism. You can visit magnificent landmark and and lend marks and sometimes the only tourists so for instance. I wasn't Rotas Ford which is a UNICYCLE Site last week and I brought a client. He was literally the only person there for those of people Tired of mass tourism and over tourism really breath of fresh air to go visit Pakistan and having the opportunity to sometimes have an entire landmark monument to yourself There's a lot to seem Pakistan. What's touch on a a couple of different places? Taxila has a real interesting history. Tell me about Taxila which is near Islamabad. Dickson is a great site Pakistan and Decide and Buxton. It has been a learning seat in the Boston. There was a lot of decides to visit so a lots so Buddhist tourists and people who have deep interest in the apology. There was this great Site another place high. On many people's list it's wanted the ultimate road journeys is the Karakoram Highway. Will Karakoram. Highway is often described by the Pakistanis. As the wonder under up the word and it's a great site And one gets but he's spectacular scenic and touching on CNN. Reenact one place on the care. Comb that I'm aware of which is really beautiful is fairy meadows yet. The mighty Nanga Burr. But which is often also known known as a killer killer mountain has some great views from the highway. And it's pretty fun place to reach. You have to go on in a four-wheel jeep for about ninety minutes on the edge of a mountain and then you hike an additional three hours to get your hotel so really a special place to visit one other place which is unique and interesting and fascinating where you're from push our. Was it like to visit a shower as probably a in February and it is often As the parasol students showers such a crate frontier city that which has a great historical As well as the CD's amazing and there is a lot to see The the lifestyle and to see to see in the cut of They have T- that the hundred seventy or got have DNC. The light goes bites such as amazing site x amazing city. The I think the best thing about per shower at at some level is a combination of hospitality in just the people watching hospitality is actually headey job People okay so let's let's cut to the chase. There's a you know. There's a lot of providers out there. Why should people choose untamed borders? Here's when visiting Pakistan Lick me. Give you an example. For example. Lahore has some amazing sights. And you can see you can see them listed on tripadvisor. These are places. Let's is in Lahore like bud. Shy Mosque royle for and John Gives Muslim and he tour guide can bring you there with twenty years experience of being a fixer. An generalist a bit twenty years with twenty years experience of being a fixer for journalists and a guide for travelers. I know the off the beaten path places to take take them to so for instance in the whole I take two truck painting art which is a highlight of highlight traditional wrestling street doctors in the Old City trump. A Fight Haircut okay. Woods afire haircut. It is the latest trend for young men in the whole year. Barbara actually lights the person's hair on fire and cuts the hair. You got to see to believe it. Okay and how do you house. UNTAMED BORDERS OPERATE in Pakistan. You guys offering group tours. Oh yes we do have Groped towards we have this two weeks It'd be a magnificent trip which starts in Islamabad and the highlights on their trips are collage with is the Pagan tribes and the Highway K.. And you can check. UNTAMED BORDERS website for more information on their group tours. Okay so what happens if those dates don't work for me or I like traveling by myself. Do you offer individual customized bespoke tours. Yes we do all arranger Individual as well as bespoke drips producer. WHO's USA who's gone come on the FX debts so we can for the mayor independent a weekly for them to private trips awesome?
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How Could Artificial Glaciers Hydrate the Himalayas?
"Discussions about climate change tend to focus on low lying areas like coastal cities yet people who live at higher elevations also feel it's negative effects including fresh water shortages to help these folks get by the duckie inventor named Sonum one Schuch has created a line of artificial glaciers called called. I stoop as their restoring frozen water so it can be used hydrate crops in the driest stretch of the year. Glacial meltwater is a necessity for most villages judges in Lubbock a region of northern India. The DOC sits on the debt and plateau between the Karakoram and the Himalayan mountain ranges this elevated terrain is is world famous for its is supply Abedin Plateau and surrounding mountains contain more ice than any other non polar area on earth. Much of this is stored up in glaciers. His will help feed vital Asian waterways the young Zee the Mekong and Indus rivers. Unfortunately those glaciers are receding because of climate change between two thousand and three in two thousand fourteen the ones located near the Brahmaputra River source lost six point nine billion cubic miles of ice. That's twenty eight point. Eight billion in cubic kilometers with glaciers some seasonal melting is expected but normally winter snowfall allows glaciers to replace the melted ice. They lose during the springtime however across the plateau. Glaciers are no longer getting enough annual snowfall to offset their lost water and so many of them have been dwindling in size as a cold desert. The dock area sees very little rainfall receiving an average of two to three inches per year. That's about fifty to seventy millimeters meters. The summer months of June through August. Do get a modest amount of precipitation however that's also when a large quantity of melted water from neighbouring mountain. Glaciers enters the streams teams. That depends on a steady water flow fills the streams during the winter as well yet because of the frozen ground and low air temperatures. The farmers can't hint grow crops during the coldest months of the year. According to an Chook winter water gets under utilized as a result demand for meltwater grows exponentially in April April in May when the life-sustaining crops of wheat buckwheat and barley need to be sown and hydrated. But in the springtime before the glacial water arrives enforce the streams often run dry. Climate Change has worsened. The problem a twenty seventeen study found that over the past six decades about twenty percent of the permanent ice ice preserves and the Docs home state have disappeared that translates to less meltwater for the locals hoping to solve these water woes. A civil engineer by the the name of Chihuahua North L. devised an innovative reservoir system in the nineteen eighties and I hope I'm saying his name correctly I couldn't find a pronunciation using dams and channels nor fell L. diverted large volumes of glacial water into Manmade Lakes on the shady sides of mountains where it froze into blocks come springtime. The ice would melt and be sent downhill the farms and villages eligible by way of canal. But this ice melted to quickly so the water tended to run out before the summer rains arrived in two thousand thirteen Wangchuk deduced I ice in Norfolk dams melted so fast because too much of it was exposed to direct sunlight. When chook figured that if he could somehow freeze the ice into a conical tower with the narrow oh end aimed skyward much less surface area would be exposed to make his frozen stalagmites when Chook devised an irrigation system? That's brilliant in its simplicity. implicity the major component is a long pipeline most of this is buried deep underground with one end tapping into a glacial stream or naturally occurring reservoir high high in the mountains through the tube the water rushes in the direction of populated areas at lower altitudes. No moving parts are electrical gizmos are needed to keep the liquid water flowing. Gravity does the trick it also pushes the water into the final stage of its journey downhill. The pipeline connects at a sharp angle to another narrower pipe. That rises soil standing vertically like a telephone pole as the saying goes water seeks its own level gravity pretty and pressure gained by flow through the narrowing pipe together naturally propel the liquid straight up that pipe until it flies out of a sprinkler on the pipes raised tip high in the air. The spray encounters atmospheric temperatures in the ballpark of negative four degrees Fahrenheit. That's about negative twenty Celsius or lower before landing it freezes. He's a solid forming a large cone of ice around the vertical pipe. The cones distinctive shape resembles that Stupa which are traditional Buddhist prayer monuments that have graced creased look for thousands of years. Hence when Chook and his associates have taken to calling the new glacier like structures I status the ducks ice Tubas meltdown meltdown in late spring. Right when the need for liquid water is greatest. The prototypical stupa erected in the winter of two thousand thirteen contained about forty thousand gallons. That's about one hundred hundred and fifty thousand liters of frozen water and lasted until may eighteenth of two thousand fourteen. Since then numerous others have been constructed. Single Stupa has is watered as many as five thousand newly planted trees standing at sixty feet eighteen meters tall. It held a breathtaking five hundred and thirty thousand gallons. That's two million liters a frozen water. Others may someday exceed one hundred feet about thirty meters in height and hold two point six million gallons or ten million liters of water outside India. The stupas have spread to countries like Switzerland in two thousand sixteen. When tooks icy brainchild earned him a coveted Rolex award for enterprise But I- stupid are not without their critics. went to in companies legal right to divert. Glacial meltwater has been challenged by a group of the duckie villagers furthermore anymore although the stupas are meant to help sustain human life they won't reverse the Tibetan Plateau's worrisome climate trends but if Homo sapiens is to survive on a changing Jin planet will need to reevaluate the ways. We use an store water. Projects like this can kick start those