On 22 August 2017 Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima completed a new route up the NE Face of Shispare (7611m), Karakorum, Pakistan. Climbing alpine style for seven days, the Japanese mountaineers ...

Karakorum served as the capital of the Mongol Empire during the 13th century. In the 16th century, the Buddhist Erdene Zuu monastery (pictured) was erected on the ruins of the city. Aloxe via ...

Spanish mountaineers Miquel Mas and Marc Subirana have climbed a new route on Southwest Face of Latok II in Pakistan's Karakorum. The pair summited the distinctive tower they have now called Latok ...

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2005-03-27 04:00:00 PDT Ulan Bator, Mongolia-- By all accounts, Genghis Khan was not a nice guy. Nice guys finish last, and Genghis Khan was determined not to be at the back of the pack. In the late ...

In a significant milestone for the study and understanding of the Mongol Empire, archaeologists have mapped its capital of Karakorum. Physical traces of the ancient city, founded in the thirteenth ...

Glaciers are shown in light blue to cyan, clouds in white, water in dark blue, vegetation in green and bare terrain in pink to brown.(Frank Paul, The Cryosphere,2015 & USGS/NASA & Google Earth) New ...

Capital city of the Mongolian Empire, Karakorum, 'much larger than previously thought,' according to archaeologists who have mapped the ancient metropolis for the first time. Founded by Genghis Khan's ...