Khora Bhurt Pass

{{Short description|Mountain pass in Pakistan and Afghanistan}}

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{{Infobox mountain pass

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| elevation_ft = 15190

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| location = Afghanistan–Pakistan border

| range = Hindukush Mountains

| coordinates = {{coord|36|51|28|N|73|57|19|E|type:pass|display=inline,title}}

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Khora Bhurt pass, also known as Khodarg Werth, Khora Burt Pass, Khord Bhort Pass, Kowtal-e Khvorah Bort, is a high mountain pass at an elevation of {{convert|4630|m|sigfig=5}}. It connects the Karambar valley in Ishkoman tehsil of Ghizer district in Gilgit–Baltistan, Northern Pakistan, with the Wakhan valley in Afghanistan.{{cite book |last1=Neelis |first1=Jason Emmanuel |title=Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia |date=19 November 2010 |publisher=Brill |location=The Netherlands |isbn=978-90-04-19458-8 |page=265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tP77EAAAQBAJ&dq=Khora%20Bhurt&pg=PA265 |access-date=8 August 2024 |language=en}}

To trek from Gahkuch to the Gilgit River is extremely difficult in winter, with snow blocking communication with Wakhan. The route through Karambar Valley and over Khora Bhurt Pass to the Afghan Pamir is only passable in early spring and autumn. An old trade route over Khora Bhurt Pass connects to the Wakhan, but access is only possible from a tributary valley below the Chateboi glacier tongue.{{cite journal |last1=Iturrizaga |first1=Lasafam |title=Historical glacier-dammed lakes and outburst floods in the Karambar valley (Hindukush-Karakoram) |journal=GeoJournal |date=1 August 2005 |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=1–47 |doi=10.1007/s10708-005-2395-x |url=https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/download/00de71d8e40b084c32471178a5379f24.pdf/Kuhle_2005_ed_ganz_hinten.pdf |access-date=8 August 2024}}