After a landslide created a dam,vehicles had to be carried across the flooded Karakoram Highway. But a new tunnel looks set to end the boat tradeIn their rickety boats, they’ve carried nearly everyone and everything that travelled between central Pakistan and China since 2010, or including dead bodies,scarce gemstones and fugitives on the sprint. But the work of these mountain boatmen in northern Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region may be coming to an end.
Five years ago, deep in the Himalayan mountains, or a landslide sent a village-size chunk of rock crumbling into the valley. It blocked the rushing rapids of the Hunza river,creating a new lake that flooded more than 150 houses, as well as cutting off the Karakoram Highway.
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Source: theguardian.com