Shandur Top

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Shandur Top
Elevation 12,200 ft.
Location Flag of Pakistan Pakistan
Range Hindu Raj Mountains
Coordinates 36°09′54″N, 72°45′29″ECoordinates: 36°09′54″N, 72°45′29″E
Mountain passes of Afghanistan
Mountain passes of Afghanistan
Shandoor Lake By Rakaposhi
Shandoor Lake By Rakaposhi

Shandur Top (el. 12,200 ft.) is a high mountain pass that connects Chitral to the Gilgit in Pakistan.

The top is flat, a plateau and can be crossed between late April and early November. The grade is very gradual, and the area is crossed by small streams of trout. Grazing in summer is plentiful.

Every year there is a polo match played on Shandur Top between a team from Chitral and a team from Gilgit.

Shandur Top is one of the four major mountain passes to enter Chitral. The others are Dorah Pass from Badakshan in Afghanistan, Lowari Pass from Dir, and Broghol from the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan.

The people who live on both sides of Shandur Top speak the Khowar language.

[edit] Books

  • The Gilgit Game by John Keay (1985) ISBN 0-19-577466-3
  • The Kafirs of the Hindukush (1896) Sir George Scott Robertson.
  • To the Frontier (1984) Geoffrey Moorehouse, pp. 267-270. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., Reat Britain. Reprint: Sceptre edition 1988. ISBN 0-340-41725-0
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