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Mir Samir, also called Mir Simir, [1] is a mountain in the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan. [2] The English traveller Eric Newby and the diplomat Hugh Carless attempted to climb Mir Samir in 1956, but they could not reach the main peak, as described in the book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. The first successful ascent was in 1959 despite a local ...
The north and west sides of the mountain are in Afghanistan whereas the south and eastern sides are in Pakistan. Noshaq is Afghanistan's highest mountain and is located in the northeastern corner of the country along the border with Pakistan. It is the westernmost 7,000 m (22,966 ft) peak in the world.
Topographic map of northeastern Afghanistan with Koh-i-Baba on the left. The Baba Mountain range (Pashto: بابا غر Bâbâ Ǧar; Persian: کوه بابا Kōh-i Bābā; or Kūh-e Bābā; [2] Kōh or Kūh meaning ′mountain′, Bābā meaning ′father′) is the western extension of the Hindu Kush, and the origin of Afghanistan's Kabul, Arghandab, Helmand, Farah, Hari, Murghab, Balkh, and ...
Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Afghanistan" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Hanifa Yousoufi became the first Afghan woman to summit her country's highest peak Mount Noshaq, at a height of 24,580 ft (7,492 meters).She achieved this feat on August 10, 2018, as part of a month-long expedition organised and funded by Ascend: Leadership Through Athletics, a nonprofit organisation that trains young women to climb mountains.
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The 4th BCT, known as Task Force Mountain Warrior, is responsible for Nangarhar, Nuristan, Konar and Laghman provinces in eastern Afghanistan. It relieved the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, or Task Force Duke, which had been conducting operations in the area for the past 15 months. [2] The 4th BCT includes the following units:
The Paropamisus Mountains [2] (locally known as Selseleh-ye Safīd Kūh [3]) is a mountain range in north western Afghanistan stretching circa 300 mi (480 km) [4] between the western extension of the Hindu Kush in the east (near Chaghcharan, also called Firozkoh) and following the north bank of the Hari River via Herat toward the eastern ...