Hispar Pass
{{Short description|Pakistani mountain pass}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=August 2024}}
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{{Infobox mountain pass
| name = Hispar Pass
ཧིསྤར་ལ།
| photo = Hispar Pass.jpg
| photo_caption = Biafo Glacier and Hispar Glacier meet to form the world's longest glacial traverse outside of the polar regions
| elevation_m = 5128
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| traversed =
| location = Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
| range = Karakorum Range
| coordinates = {{coord|36.019|75.546|region:PK|display=it}}
| topo =
}}
Hispar Pass or Hispar La ({{langx|ur|{{nq|درہ ہسپر}}}}; ) (el. 5,128 m/16,824 ft) is a high-altitude, non-technical mountain pass in the Karakoram Range in Nagar District, Pakistan.{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/763a7d2c-65d6-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/763a7d2c-65d6-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html |archive-date=2022-12-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Ice and isolation in the Karakoram}}{{cite journal |last1=Conway |first1=W. M. |title=The Crossing of the Hispar Pass |journal=The Geographical Journal |date=1893 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=131–138 |doi=10.2307/1773755 |jstor=1773755 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1773755 |access-date=6 August 2024 |language=en |issn=0016-7398}}
At the pass, the Biafo Glacier (63 km long) and Hispar Glacier (49 km long) meet to form the world's longest glacial traverse outside of the polar regions, 100 kilometers in length.
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External links
- [http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/420123/an/0/page/0#420123 Northern Pakistan detailed placemarks in Google Earth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204020441/http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/420123/an/0/page/0#420123 |date=4 February 2012 }}
{{Mountain passes of Pakistan}}
Category:Mountain passes of Gilgit-Baltistan
Category:Mountain passes of the Karakoram
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