Karakoram Highway completed
1979 · Event
Twenty years of blasting joins Pakistan to China over the 4,700-metre Khunjerab Pass, roughly along the old road — the highest paved border crossing on earth.
On these timelines: The Silk Road & the Steppe, Master, China
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