[11] Although their origins are unknown, it is claimed that the Burusho people "were indigenous to northwestern India and were pushed higher into the mountains by the movements of the Indo-Aryans, who traveled southward sometime around 1800 B.C.

[13] Medical researchers believe that peace, harmony and less exposure to stress in the lives of the Hunza people is linked to their longer life spans.

[14] Independent writers have refuted these longevity myths,[15] citing a life expectancy of 53 years for men and 52 for women, although with a high standard deviation.

[16] A group of 350 Burusho people also reside in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, being mainly concentrated in Batamalu, as well as in Botraj Mohalla, which is southeast of Hari Parbat.

[28][29] R2a, unlike its extremely rare parent R2, R1a1 and other clades of haplogroup R, is now virtually restricted to South Asia.

The October 1953 issue of National Geographic had an article on the Hunza River Valley that inspired Carl Barks' story Tralla La.