Akher Chhish

Akher Chhish is in the monsoon-influenced east-center of the range (Dwc or BSk climate), to the south of the cold desert (BWk) on the Afghan side, but to the west of the Greater Himalayas.^[3]

The Hindu Kush are very varied in terms of climate. Since Akher Chhish is in the east-center (not too far from the junction with the Karakorams), and on the Pakistani side,^[1] it is a dry semidesert (BSk), with severely cold, snowless winters and cool to warm, damp summers on the lower slopes, and extremely cold, snowy winters and cool to cold, less damp summers higher up, on the tundra (ET) below the glaciers. The snow line is at approximately 12,000 feet (3,700 m), partially due to the dry climate of the central Hindukush.^[3] At the very top, it is cold and snowy all year long (EF).

The lower slopes and valleys have scattered juniper and birch trees, as well as grass and desert thornplants, grading to shorter grass and then just moss higher up.^[3]

Goats and Siberian ibex live in the high mountaintops, while snow leopards and small populations of brown and black bears live and hunt in the valleys.^[3]

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