Thalle Pass

mountain pass, Asia

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Hindu Kush Mountains

  • Map showing the elevations and physical features of the Hindu Kush and Karakoram Range.
    In Hindu Kush: Study and exploration

    … passed northward, or the adjacent Thalle Pass, used by Timur; the second was the Kushān Pass (slightly to the west of the present-day Sālang road tunnel), which Alexander crossed southward; and the third was the Kipchak Pass, used by Genghis Khan in the early 13th century and by Bābur in…

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