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| isbn =9788120617940 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Bhambri|first=Rakesh|title=Contributions of Kenneth Mason to the physical geography of Himalaya and Karakoram|journal=[[Progress in Physical Geography]]|date=2024|doi=10.1177/03091333241264117 }}</ref> The valley lies to the north of [[Baltoro Muztagh]], a subrange of the [[Karakoram]] [[mountain range]] that includes [[K2]], the second highest mountain in the world.
[[File:View of Karakoram range.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Karakoram, a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China]]In the context of long-running political rivalry between world powers that became known as the [[Great Game]], over several decades interest of the British Imperial authorities in this unmapped and uninhabited territory had been growing, because it provided access to the Aghil Pass linking China to [[Ladakh]], India.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Westaway|first=Jonathan |title=That undisclosed world: Eric Shipton's Mountains of Tartary (1950)|journal=Studies in Travel Writing|date=2014|volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=357–373 |doi=10.1080/13645145.2014.964457 |s2cid=154880236 |doi-access=free }}</ref> However, the only westerner to see the valley had been [[Francis Younghusband]], whose book ''The heart of a continent : a narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894''<ref name=younghusband>{{cite book
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