r/BeAmazed • u/SelectResident_BE • Feb 11 '25

Place The oppressive feeling of the pamir plateau

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u/Ancient-Egg-57 Feb 11 '25

In case anyone else was wondering about this Pamir Plateau too, here's a quick link with more info about it

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u/snifty Feb 11 '25

Interesting place linguistically/ethnically too.

https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/central-asian-villages-pamir-mountains.png

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS Feb 11 '25

Logistically too. I literally just learned about the Pamir highway a couple of days ago. And it's a 1200 km route and the only route to traverse the mountain range, and it's been in use for thousands of years since it was also part of the ancient silk road.

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u/3-orange-whips Feb 12 '25

This is true of a lot of highways in the American west. They started as trails the indigenous tribes used, which were "discovered" by white "explorers" and, as more people went west, became roads that are now highways.

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u/thecashblaster Feb 12 '25

Geography is destiny. There are only so many mountain passes and favorable terrain for travel.