Hermann von Schlagintweit, Adolphe von Schlagintweit, and Robert
von Schlagintweit, Results of a Scientific Mission to India and
High Asia, 4 vol. and atlas (1861–66), is an excellent account
of a scientific exploration undertaken in 1854–58 in the
Karakoram Range. A superb evaluation of science and research in
the Karakorams is given in Kenneth Hewitt, “European Science in
High Asia: Geomorphology in the Karakoram, Himalaya to 1939,” in
Keith J. Tinkler (ed.), History of Geomorphology: From Hutton to
Hack (1989), pp. 165–203. Results of contemporary research in
the area are surveyed in Edward Derbyshire and Lewis A. Owen
(eds.), Quaternary of the Karakoram and Himalaya (1989); K.J.
Miller (ed.), The International Karakoram Project, 2 vol.
(1984); M.P. Searle, Geology and Tectonics of the Karakoram
Mountains (1991); John F. Shroder, Jr. (ed.), Himalaya to the
Sea: Geology, Geomorphology, and the Quaternary (1993); and
Hermann Kreutzmann, Karakoram in Transition: Culture,
Development, and Ecology in the Hunza