Given a layer of rubble that provides insulation from the warmth of the sun, the entire mountain remains white throughout the year.
The Karakoram Range is home to the K2 mountain peak, which has an elevation of 28,251 ft and is the second tallest in the world, after Mount Everest. peaks of Pakistan, K2  Baltoro and Batura Glaciers in the Karakoram are 57 kilometres (35 mi) long, as is Bruggen or Pio XI Glacier in southern Chile. An expedition led by British Colonel Francis Younghusband was the first to cross the Muztagh Pass in 1887, while General Sir George K. Cockerill explored the rivers of the region in 1892. google_ad_client = "pub-0821736599960485"; The range is about 500 km (311 mi) in length and is the most heavily glaciated part of the world outside the polar regions. Additionally, two glaciers in the Karakoram, the Biafo Glacier (39 mi) and the Siachen Glacier (47 mi), are the two longest glaciers in the world. google_color_border = "336699"; [22][24], While the current valley glaciers in the Karakoram reach a maximum length of 76 kilometres (47 mi), several of the ice-age valley glacier branches and main valley glaciers, had lengths up to 700 kilometres (430 mi).

Karakoram, ( Note: google_color_url = "008000"; Karakoram Range, Chinese (Pinyin) Karakorum Shan or (Wade-Giles romanization) K’a-la-k’un-lun Shan, great mountain system extending some 300 miles (500 km) from the easternmost extension of Afghanistan in a southeasterly direction along the watershed between Central and South Asia.

The term is now used to refer to the entire range from the Batura Muztagh above Hunza in the west to the Saser Muztagh in the bend of the Shyok River in the east. Map 4: Siachen, Rimo, Saser Kangri Area, Karakorum [1][2] The Karakoram has eighteen summits over 7,500 m (24,600 ft) height, with four of them exceeding 8,000 m (26,000 ft):[3] K2, the second highest peak in the world at 8,611 m (28,251 ft), Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum II. A significant part, somewhere between 28 and 50 percent, of the Karakoram Range is glaciated covering an area of more than 15,000 square kilometres or 5,800 square miles,[14] compared to between 8 and 12 percent of the Himalaya and 2.2 percent of the Alps. However, the Karakoram's glaciers are retreating slowly, which is an indicator of climate change. How Much Of The Amazon Rainforest Is Left? click for Fullsize. google_ad_width = 200; Europeans first explored the region in the early 19th century, followed by British surveyors in 1856 to demarcate boundaries and take measurements of the peaks. The Karakoram mountain range has been referred to in a number of novels and movies.
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