Himalaya
Day 19: The Karakoram Highway

And the lavatory's spotless.
The KKH, like an earlier engineering marvel, the Forth Railway Bridge, needs constant attention as the road climbs higher and the ice cracks the rock and the snowmelt sends the rubble slithering down onto the highway. So it's no great surprise to hear that a landslide has blocked the road between here and the 16,000-foot (4877 m) Khunjerab Pass which leads into China. Even if we got there we couldn't go further, as the frontier has been closed due to the SARS epidemic. We detour up to the village of Altit.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Himalaya
- Chapter: Day 19: The Karakoram Highway
- Country/sea: Pakistan
- Place: The Karakoram Highway
- Book page no: 43
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