Pamirs

-- Russia, it is asserted, "intends to annex the whole of the elevated plateaus known as the Pamirs, and all parts of Afghanistan north of a straight line drawn from Lake Victoria to the junction of the Kotcha River with the Oxus."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 Various

Between them the mountains of the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush, Karakorams, Pamirs and Tien Shan store more ice than anywhere outside the north and south poles.

Everest's ice is retreating as climate change grips the Himalayas 2011

Of all the mountain ranges I have ever seen, from the St. Elias to the Pamirs or the Himalayas, the Sierra Madre are the most forbidding—as unapproachable with hide intact as the afterlife.

Kook Peter Heller 2010

But I had guessed that Phlogiston was somewhere in the Pamirs…

N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

Geography—note: landlocked; mountainous region dominated by the Trans-Alay Range in the north and the Pamirs in the southeast; highest point, Qullai Ismoili Somoni (formerly Communism Peak), was the tallest mountain in the former USSR

Tajikistan 2008

Tajikistanlandlocked; mountainous region dominated by the Trans-Alay Range in the north and the Pamirs in the southeast; highest point, Qullai Ismoili Somoni (formerly Communism Peak), was the tallest mountain in the former USSR

Geography-note 2008

Dushanbe's drawing card isn't the majestic, snow-capped Pamirs or nostalgia for the ancient silk route.

The Great Game, Chapter Two 2008

Will these folks succeed in creating some paradise of gore in Iraq or the Pamirs?

In Their Own Words: The Gospel According to Al Qaeda 2007

The Times of London's Bronwen Maddox recently described the mountain ranges of Middle-earth as "greener than the Hindu Kush or the Pamirs but equally daunting."

Osama Bin Baggins? 2007

She'd slipped into the lilt I remembered from the Bengal plains to the Pamirs, English as a second language.

Teaser jhetley 2007