- Broghol
Infobox Mountain Pass
Name = Broghol
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Elevation = 3798 m./12,460 ft.
Location = PAK / AFG
Range =Pamir Mountains
Coordinates = coord|37|00|N|73|26|E|type:pass
Topographic
Transversed by =Broghol, also spelled Boroghil and several other ways, (el. 3798 m./12,460 ft.) is a high
mountain pass that crosses thePamir Mountains and connects theWakhan Corridor ofAfghanistan withChitral inPakistan .Broghol is a relatively low pass. It was closed for about three months each winter because of snow, but for much of the rest of the year it was passable even for cart traffic.
It is one of the four major mountain passes entering
Chitral ; the others are theDorah Pass fromBadakshan inAfghanistan ,Shandur Top fromGilgit , andLowari Top from Dir inPakistan .The area of Broghol is inhabited by Wakhi and
Kyrgyz people.European migration
According to the
National Geographic Genographic Project, Broghol Pass appears to be the route used by the ancestors of all modernWest ernEurope ans to reachEurope . Modern Europeans carrying the M45 genetic marker crossed Broghol and then turned west; M45 further mutated to become M173 and then M343, which is carried by 70% of the population of England. [https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html]Historical significance
As a low pass, Broghol has been often proposed but seldom used as an invasion route. During the
19th Century , the British greatly feared that theRussia ns would use Broghol to invade the heartland of BritishIndia . However, the Russians never did that, probably because after crossing Broghol they would have had to walk more than 200 miles down toJalalabad or else would have had to cross another equally high pass to reachIshkoman .Fact|date=February 2007It is possible that
Marco Polo crossed the Broghol Pass to reachChina .In popular culture
* The
1985 comedy movieSpies Like Us depictsDan Aykroyd crossing the Broghol Pass on a mountainyak .Books
* "The Gilgit Game" by John Keay (1985) ISBN 0-19-577466-3
* The Kafirs of the Hindukush (1896) Sir George Scott Robertson
* Khowar English Dictionary ISBN 0-923891-15-3External links
* [http://www.broghil.com Broghil, Chitral, Pakistan]
* [https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html National Geographic Genographic Project]
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