یہ اصطلاح سب سے پہلےسلسلہ کوہ پامیر کے لیے استعمال کی گئی۔ برطانوی مہم جوجان ووڈ نے مقامی زبان غالباوخی زبان[1] میں مستعملبامِ دنیا (Bam-i-Duniah) کو انگریزی میں (Roof of the World) کے نام سے ترجمہ کیا۔[2]
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We were now about to cross the famous 'Bam-i-dunya','The Roof of the World' under which name the elevated region of the hitherto comparatively unknown Pamir tracts had long appeared in our maps.[...] Wood, in 1838, was the first European traveller of modem times to visit the Great Pamir,[3]
↑Sir Thomas Edward Gordon,The Roof of the World: being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876
↑Guillaume Capus,Le Toit du Monde (Pamir), voyage extrême orient. Illustré de 31 Vignettes et d'une Carte, Paris: Hachette et Cie. 1890 =Bibliographia Marmotarum. Ramousse R., International Marmot Network, Lyon, 1997.ISBN 2-9509900-2-9Guillaume Capus
