Expedition Sets Out to Retrace Marco Polo Route
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S.-led expedition has embarked on a 4,000-mile journey retracing--by jeep, camel and yak--part of the ancient silk route Marco Polo followed from Italy to China.
State-run Radio Pakistan said the team last week drove from Pakistan’s eastern town of Gilgit--where Mongol emperor Kublai Khan once held court--and headed across the Himalayas on the 500-mile-long Karakoram highway through the Himalayas.
The Americans in the group will be among the first foreigners to cross the 16,000-foot Khunjrab Pass, where the Karakoram enters China, since the pass was closed by China in 1948.
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