The name Karakoram is Turkish and means "black rock". Originally the name only stood for the 5671m high passage with the same name in the mountain ranges south-eastern end. Through this passage caravans made their way from Tibet to Turkestan. It was a feared passage were skelettons could be seen along the roadside the last kilometers due to exaustion, thurst or cold weather. Karakoram contains the worlds largest continues ice layer besides the Arctic and Antarctic. On the central ridge both sides the worlds longest glacier stretch out: Siachen (73 km), Baltoro (66 km), Hispar (61 km) and Biafo (61 km).
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On the edge of the
centralasian desert in northwestern Himalaya the
worlds second highest mountain range can be
found, The massive Karakoram. It stretches almost
350 km towards the north-west south-east
direction, and exists of 4 peaks that all reach
8000m: Mt. Godwin Austen (also called K2 and
Dapsang) 8611m, 
The
glaciers of Karakoram