How To Use Hindu Kush In A Sentence
- I have chosen Eric Newby's "Slowly Down the Ganges" rather than his justly acclaimed "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" blurbed by E. Five Best: Larry McMurtry
- Let's drive to Afghanistan and climb some previously unvisited peaks in the Hindu Kush.
- Note 70: Dera Ismail Khan was a key financial hub where transactions between Lohanis and their Hindu brokers occurred each fall when the former descended from the crevices of the Hindu Kush through the Gomal Pass to the daman. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
- Afghanistan emerged as a country of sorts only in the mid-18th century, and a case can be made that with the slow-motion dissolution of the former Soviet empire in Central Asia, and the gradual weakening of the Pakistani state, a historic realignment is now taking place that could see Afghanistan disappear on the political map: in the future, for example, the Hindu Kush could form a border between Pashtunistan and a Greater Tajikistan. Man Versus Afghanistan
- The general had mustered his troops north of the Hindu Kush.
- They made their living through pastoralism, brigandage, and export of the few resources they had to offer, including pistachios and lapis lazuli—the Hindu Kush being the only known source for this precious blue stone in the ancient world. Alexander the Great
- Soon the winter weather will close in and, in the high reaches of the Hindu Kush and Karakoram ranges, the mountain passes will be closed when the temperature drops below freezing for months on end.
- But even soldiers from the rugged Balkans were unprepared for the Hindu Kush, a towering range extending southwest from the Karakorum and Himalayas. Alexander the Great
- The most unlikely option was the easternmost route, the Khawak Pass, at twelve thousand feet above sea level the highest and most difficult trail north through the Hindu Kush into Bactria. Alexander the Great
- The landlocked country is dominated by the rugged Hindu Kush mountains that sweep from the west to the east.
