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Great work and thanks for the write up. Sorry to be pedantic, your longest view is not from the Hindu Kush, but from the mountains to the south of the Tarim Ba
by Quarrel 8mo ago
Great work and thanks for the write up.
Sorry to be pedantic, your longest view is not from the Hindu Kush, but from the mountains to the south of the Tarim Basin which are the Kunlun mountains.
The Hindu Kush are largely in Afghanistan, but also Pakistan, running in an arc from Kabul to the north east. They aren't in China.
The Hindu Kush range then gives way to the Karakoram, as you cross Kashmir, which is then bordered to the north by the Kunlun which form the arc of the southern Tarim Basin.
I suspect you're just mixing it up with the Hindu Tagh pass, just to the south of the peak your point is looking from. Hindu Tagh seems to be about as good a name as the line-of-sight community has come up with for that peak.
- ryanbberger 8mo agoWe appreciate the pedantry. I think I came up with that name from a game of telephone of sources claiming to have the longest line of sight. There's a lot of really random sources on the Internet that mention the line of sight but do not cite the data or analysis. I have seen Hindu Tagh thrown around as well so if it's more accurate we want it there. Part of our motivations were to stop the game of telephone and become an authoritative source on this stuff. I'm not much of a geographer, more of a HPC guy. I have this on the TODO list to update tomorrow.
- tombh 8mo agoAgreed, pedantry very much appreciated. Website updated!