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7 unusual facts about Khyber Pass


Black Tyrone

In the 1975 film The Man Who Would Be King (based upon Kipling's writings) a character guarding the Khyber Pass, Private Mulvaney, is said to be "a loudmouth Mick from the Black Tyrones."

Hugo Anthony Meynell

Hugo Anthony Meynell (born 23 March 1936), Meynell Langley, Derbyshire, England, shortly after the death of his father, Captain Godfrey Meynell, who won the Victoria Cross in action against Afghan raiders in India's Khyber Pass.

John Granville Harkness

He commanded the column that cleared the entrance to the Khaibar or Khyber Pass.

Khyber Pass

Even the option of supplying material through the Iranian port of Chabahar was considered.

Martini-Enfield

The Khyber Pass region between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long had a reputation for producing unlicensed, home-made copies of firearms using whatever materials are available- more often than not, railway sleepers, junked motor vehicles, and scrap metal.

Sara Losh

Although she never married, she may have had a romantic attachment to a school friend, Major Thain, who was killed at the Khyber Pass in 1842.

Up the Khyber

The title is something of a rude joke since 'Khyber' is Cockney rhyming slang ('Khyber Pass' = 'arse').


Battle of Ghazni

In the 1830s, the British were firmly entrenched in India but by 1837, the British feared a Russian invasion of India through the Khyber and Bolan Passes as the Russian Empire had expanded towards the British dominion of India.

Jamrud Fort

The Jamrud Fort is located at the entrance to the Khyber Pass in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Nant Ffrancon Pass

It has been frequently used as a filming location for British film-makers, including doubling for the Khyber Pass in the Carry On film Carry On up the Khyber, and doubling for the Himalayas in the Doctor Who serial The Abominable Snowmen.

William Botsford Jarvis

He served on the staff of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, and was one of the lucky few to survive the infamous withdrawal through the Khyber Pass.


see also

Darra

Darra Adam Khel - a semi-autonomous tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, south of the Khyber Pass

David Aldus

His Father, John Macdonald Aldus was a Company Sergeant Major in the South Wales Borderers, as was his father, killed in action in the Khyber pass.

Geography of Pakistan

Among them are the Khojak Pass, about eighty kilometres northwest of Quetta in Balochistan; the Khyber Pass, forty kilometres west of Peshawar and leading to Kabul; and the Broghol Pass in the far north, providing access to the Wakhan Corridor.