Comes K2 in the Karakorum
in view by crossing the Kunlun Shan on Highway 219?
Maps and graphs relating to this question here.
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Virtual
Flights
Created with kashmir3d with the
topographic srtm model from the NASA and the satellite images
from globalcordinate.com - all for free available on the net.
The srtm data have some gaps - one hit unfortunately Kailash,
another one Kamet, or K2, or ... .
Movie
1a (5.2mb,
28s, 225 Images, 856x480)
Movie
1b (23.4mb,
1:20min, 2400 Img,
856x480)
Movie
1c
(2mb, 8s, 2400 Images)
Virtual flights in the Kailash
Region! See the holly mountain, Lake Manasarovar,
the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway and Gurla Mandata.
See the
flight paths
of movie 1b + 1c. |
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Movie
2a (15.5mb, 2min,
3000 Images, 856x480)
Movie 2b
(27.3mb, 1min, 3000 Images, 856x480)
2 Flights over the Aksai Chin Region!
Both flights begins near Dahonglituan in the mountians
of the Kunlun Shan in the Karakax Valley, A loop to
the Region around Tielong and Sumxi takes you back to
the starting point.
See the
flight paths. |
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Movie
3 (32mb, 1:20min,
2400 Images, 856x480)
Flights over the Guge Ruins Region!
From Namru it flies southwards along the road over Aya
La (pass) to the canyons around the Sutlej river to
Zhada (Tholing) and the Guge ruins at Tsaparang, before
it heads along the east road to Moincer/Misar.
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4 (12.4mb,1:40min, 2000 Images,
856x480)
A flight over a region that is not that far away: The Pamir
in Tajikistan. |
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Other images:
Kunlun Shan and Western Tibet seen by Astronauts from space:
(original pictures from "Earth
from Space") -
for more images (of Nepal), look here
The Kashgar-Lhasa-Highway
from Kudi over the Kunlun Shan Mountains, Aksai Chin to Misar/Moincer
in Western Tibet.
Xinjiang/Ngari, China |
High
Resolution Image (1.7Mb)
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The road from Ali/Shiquanhe to Zhada (Tholing), respectively to
the ruins of the Guge Kingdom (Tsaparang) and to Mount Kailash and
Lake Manasarovar.
Ngar/Western Tibet, China |
High
Resolution Image (0.6Mb) |
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The road to Zhada (Tholing) and the ruins of the Guge Kingdom
(Tsaparang).
Ngari, Western Tibet, China
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High
Resolution Image (1.2Mb) |
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