Lowari pass
| Lowari pass | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass direction | north | south | |
| Pass height | 3120 m | ||
| District | Chitral | Upper Dir | |
| Watershed | Ashret Gol → Kunar → Kabul | Dir → Panjkora → Swat → Kabul | |
| Valley locations | Chitral | to you | |
| expansion | National road 45 | ||
| Mountains | Hinduraj | ||
| particularities | November to May impassable for vehicles | ||
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 21 '10 " N , 71 ° 48' 0" E | ||
The Lowari Pass , also called Lowari Top , has a summit height of 3,120 meters and overcomes the Hinduraj Mountains between the two districts of Chitral and Upper Dir in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .
This mountain range separates the access to the Chitral district. The pass is impassable for vehicles from November to May due to the snow. However, people cross this pass even in winter and deaths occur. The pass with the lowest pass height in this region offers the shortest route to Chitral ; However, it is only accessible with off-road vehicles. The Chitral district can only be reached via four mountain passes or from Afghanistan via the Kunar valley . The other passes are the Dorah Pass and Broghol Pass which lead into the Wakhan Corridor into Afghanistan and the Shandur Pass which leads to Gilgit in Pakistan.
On the side of Chitral live the Ashret and on the other side the Gujjars , who speak different language dialects. In 1954 there was an accident when a plane in which the Mehtar ("King of Chitral") was sitting and was killed when it crashed near the pass.
The 8.6-kilometer Lowari tunnel has been under construction since 2005, which should enable winter-safe access to the Chitral district from spring 2010. Due to many political, planning and technical difficulties as well as cost problems, a completion date for March 2014 was announced. Another completion date was announced in August 2014 for October 2017.
Web links
- Pictures from the Lowari Pass on trekearth.com , accessed December 12, 2009
- Report from a trip over the Lowari Pass in snow on lonelyplanet.com, accessed on December 12, 2009 (English)
- Detailed map of the north of Pakistan
Individual evidence
- ↑ Engr Husain Amad Siddiqui: Unending delays in Lowari Tunnel project , March 14, 2010, in English, accessed on March 2, 2013
- ↑ Lowari Tunnel likely to be completed by 2017 ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed June 23, 2015
