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20 Jun 2008, China --- Animals grazing in front of Sand Mountain are reflected in tributary water of the Gez River (below), beside the Karakoram Highway. The Karakoram Highway runs about 1,300 km, connecting Havelian, northern Pakistan to Kasghar, and Xinjiang, China on an ancient route of the old Silk Road. Nearly 900 workers (over 800 of which were Pakistani) died in construction of the world's highest-altitude international road before it was completed in 1986. The highway weaves through the Pamir Plateau and Kunlun Mountains in an ethnically diverse region where India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and China are all within 250 km of one another. | Location: Bulunkul, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. --- Image by © Michael Reynolds/epa/Corbis
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