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The crest of the pass is wide and covered with lush alpine grass vegetation during the summer. The Astore River originates from the western slopes of the Burzil Pass. [4] It is the oldest-known route connecting Gilgit with Skardu and Srinagar through the Deosai Plateau. Ancient travellers are believed to have extensively crossed the pass by horse.
As late as 1905, the highest pass over the main chain that had a carriage road was the Great St Bernard (2,472 m (8,111 ft)), but three still higher passes over side ridges have roads—the col de l'Iseran, the Stelvio Pass (2,760 m (9,040 ft)), the Col du Galibier (2,658 m (8,721 ft)), in the Dauphiné Alps, and the Umbrail Pass (2,512 m ...
It is situated on the bank of the Burzil Nala, approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) south of the Chilam Chowki checkpost and to the north of a border village named Kamri. [2] The village, located south of Astore via the Burzil Pass, has an average elevation of 2,844 metres (9,331 ft) above sea level.
Latitude and longitude extremities of Italy Northernmost point: Testa Gemella Occidentale , Predoi , Alto Adige at 47°5′N 12°11′E / 47.083°N 12.183°E / 47.083; 12.183 ( North: Testa Gemella Occidentale
Babusar Pass connect Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Gilgit Baltistan 4,173 m (13,691 ft) Bashkaro Pass 4,924 m (16,155 ft) Bolan Pass connects Sibi with Quetta 1,793.4 m (5,884 ft) Burzil Pass 4,100 m (13,451 ft) Mustagh Pass 6,013-meter (19,728 ft) Broghil Pass Pass to Afghanistan 3,798 m (12,460 ft) Chaprot Pass 4,900 m (16,076 ft) Peiwar Pass
The pass is named after the "Piz Umbrail", a nearby mountain peak. The road has been entirely asphalted since 2015. The last unpaved section was a 1.5 km stretch on the Swiss side, running between elevations of 1,883 and 2,012 metres (6,178 and 6,601 ft). During the 2017 Giro d'Italia, Umbrail Pass was reached during the stage from Rovetta to ...
The border is a product of the Napoleonic period, established with the provisional constitution of the Helvetic Republic of 15 January 1798, restored in 1815. While this border existed as a border of Switzerland from 1815, there was only a unified Italian state to allow the existence of a "Swiss-Italian border" with the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, it previously comprised the ...
View of Tarvisio in 1915. The town is in the Canal Valley (Val Canale) between the Carnic Alps and Karawanks ranges in the north and the Julian Alps in the south.Located at the border with both Austria and Slovenia, Tarvisio and its neighbouring municipalities of Arnoldstein and Kranjska Gora form the tripoint of Romance, Germanic and Slavic Europe.