Astronaut Loral O’Hara captured from ISS Hindu Kush Mountains.
The Hindu Kush is an 800km mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan. The range has numerous high snow-capped peaks, with the highest point being Tirich Mir or Terichmir at 7,708m in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Hindu Kush range region was a historically a significant center of Hinduism, and later Buddhism, with sites such as the Bamiyan Buddhas. The range and communities settled in it hosted ancient monasteries, important trade networks and travelers between Central Asia and South Asia. The Hindu Kush range has also been the passageway for invasions of the Indian subcontinent, and continues to be important to contemporary warfare in Afghanistan.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Loral O’Hara’s Tweet
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