Shandur Top
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| Shandur Top | |
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| Elevation | 12,200 ft. |
| Location |  Pakistan |
| Range | Hindu Raj Mountains |
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Shandur Top (el. 12,200 ft.) is a high mountain pass that connects Chitral to Gilgit in Pakistan.
The top is flat, a plateau and can be crossed between late april and early november. The grade is very gradual, and the area is extremely beautiful, crossed by small streams full of trout.
Every year there is a polo match played on Shandur Top between a team from Chitral and a team from Gilgit.
Shandur Top is one of the four major mountain passes to enter Chitral. The others are Dorah Pass from Badakshan in Afghanistan, Lowari Pass from Dir, and Broghol from the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan.
The people who live on both sides of Shandur Top speak the Khowar language.
[edit] Books
- "The Gilgit Game" by John Keay (1985) ISBN 0-19-577466-3
- The Kafirs of the Hindukush (1896) Sir George Scott Robertson.
- Khowar English Dictionary (by Mohammad Ismail Sloan, 1981) (published in Pakistan)
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