Name: Nanga Parbat
Other name/spelling: Nangaparbat Peak, Diamir
Elevation: 26,658ft (8,125m)
Location: Karakoram, Gilgit, Baltistan, Pakistan
Importance: 9th highest mountain in the world
Nanga Parbat is important favored by utmost rovers, but those were the Germans, who gave it the name, killer Mountain. The discoverer, Albert Frederick Mummery, was the first to venture on this mountain. Daunting and wild, bearing the rush of eating wind and torrential rain during the showers, Nanga Parbat is full of the troubles of the unknown. The Sherpas, points of the Himalayan region call Nanga Parbat, “ the man-eater” or the‘Mountain of the Devil’. No other peak has claimed lives with similar sickening chronicity and the list of tragedies is heart- wrenching. In the last century, roads have been erected in the Karakoram range, but little additional has changed in this region.
Nanga Parbat has a height of 8126 measures/ft. It has three vast faces. The Rakhiot (RaiKot) face, world’s deepest couloir (1000m), is dominated by the north and south tableware zenith and tableware table; the Diamir face is rocky in the morning. It converts itself into ice fields around Nanga Parbat peak. The Rupal face is the loftiest rockwall in the world.
Nanga Parbat peak was discovered in the 19th century by Europeans. The Schlagintweit sisters, who hailed from Munich, Germany came in 1854 to Himalayas and drew a panoramic view which is the first given picture of Nanga Parbat. In 1857 one of them was boggled in Kashgar and this was the morning of curse of Nanga Parbat. Nanga Parbat was first successfully climbed by Herman Buhl in 1953.
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