Not yet, but it will.
Many men will die in the building of it from cold and dysentery, and even hunger--Englishmen and coolies from Baltistan.

Many men will die fighting over it, Englishmen and Chiltis, and Gurkhas and Sikhs.

It will cost millions of money, and from policy or economy successive Governments will try to stop it; but the power of the Road will be greater than the power of any Government.

It will wind through valleys so deep that the day's sunshine is gone within the hour.

It will be carried in galleries along the faces of mountains, and for eight months of the year sections of it will be buried deep in snow.