Minimum winter temperatures range from −20 to −40 °C (−4 to −40 °F). The first known report on the Siachen Glacier was written by British mountaineer-explorer Henry Strachey in October 1848.

Karakorum ( Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум, Kharkhorum; Mongolian Script: ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠬᠣᠷᠣᠮ, Qaraqorum; Chinese: 哈拉和林) was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260 and of the Northern Yuan dynasty in the 14–15th centuries.

Karakoram Range, Chinese (Pinyin) Karakorum Shan or (Wade-Giles romanization) K’a-la-k’un-lun Shan, great mountain system extending some 300 miles (500 km) from the easternmost extension of Afghanistan in a southeasterly direction along the watershed between Central and South Asia.