Nanga Parbat

Rakhiot glacier is located on part of the mountain

Nanga Parbat Rakhiot Face from Fairy Meadows

Nanga Parbat Rupal Base camp, Gilgit Baltistan

At 4,100 m (13,450 ft), near the Rakhiot Base Camp

View from Latbo village. For a sense of scale, notice a four-man yellow tent, dwarfed by the peak, near the bottom right. Just above the tent is a large white building.

Ninth-highest mountain on Earth, its summit at 8126 m above sea level.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, are a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

The 6000 km journey of the India landmass (Indian Plate) before its collision with Asia (Eurasian Plate) about 40 to 50 million years ago

Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of the Indus river.

List of highest mountains on Earth

There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of 7200 m or greater above sea level.

Aerial view of Mount Everest from the south. The peak rises over Lhotse, while Nuptse is the ridge on the left.

Figure demonstrating the concept of topographic prominence: The prominence of a peak is the height of the peak's summit above the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit. For example, vertical arrows show the topographic prominence of three peaks on an island. A dotted horizontal line links each peak (except the highest) to its key col.

1. The summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth

2. K2, the highest summit of the Karakoram

3. Kangchenjunga, the second-highest mountain of the Himalaya

4. Lhotse, the third-highest mountain of the Himalaya

11. Gasherbrum I, the second-highest mountain of the Karakoram

12. Broad Peak, the third-highest mountain of the Karakoram

There is no precise definition of surrounding base, but Denali, Mount Kilimanjaro and Nanga Parbat are possible candidates for the tallest mountain on land by this measure.

Porter (carrier)

Person who carries objects or cargo for others.

"Men laden with 'Brick Tea' for Thibet" from the personal notations of Ernest Henry Wilson in 1908

Sherpa porter carrying wood in the Himalaya, near Mount Everest

A porter's gear is typically simple but effective. In this example, the load goes into an oversized basket, or doko, which rests against the back. A strap runs underneath the doko and over the crown of the head, which bears most of the weight. Each porter in this region also carries a T-shaped walking stick called a tokma to take some of the strain off the back.

Porters with provisions for the dinosaur excavations at Tendaguru, near Lindi, Tanzania, between 1909 and 1912

Porters at a ford on the Sakawa River, near Odawara

Porter carrying luggage over a pedestrian bridge in Venice

Amir Mehdi was a Pakistani mountaineer and porter known for being part of the team which managed the first successful ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1953, and of K2 in 1954 with an Italian expedition.

Indus River

Transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

The course of the Indus in the disputed Kashmir region; the river flows through Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan, administered respectively by India and Pakistan

The major sites of the Indus Valley Civilization fl 2600–1900 BCE in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan

Confluence of Indus and Zanskar rivers. The Indus is at the left of the picture, flowing left-to-right; the Zanskar, carrying more water, comes in from the top of the picture.

Skyline of Sukkur along the shores of the Indus River

The Indus River near Skardu, in Gilgit–Baltistan.

Lansdowne Bridge and Ayub Bridge connecting the cities of Rohri and Sukkur in Sindh, Pakistan.

The 3180 km river rises in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmir, bends sharply to the left after the Nanga Parbat massif, and flows south-by-southwest through Pakistan, before emptying into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi.

Karakoram

Mountain range in Kashmir spanning the borders of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

Hunza Valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region administered by Pakistan

Highest Karakoram peaks in the Baltoro region as seen from International Space Station

View of the Moon over Karakoram Range in Pakistan

In the last ice age, a connected series of glaciers stretched from western Tibet to Nanga Parbat, and from the Tarim basin to the Gilgit District.

Massif

Section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures.

Panorama of Pirin Mountain massif, Bulgaria

Nanga Parbat – Pakistan

Eight-thousander

The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) recognises eight-thousanders as the 14 mountains that are more than 8000 m in height above sea level, and are considered to be sufficiently independent from neighbouring peaks.

Flight over Khumbu-region; six eight-thousanders are visible

Comparison of the heights of the Eight-thousanders (red triangles) with the Seven Summits and Seven Second Summits

The 30–highest peaks in the world with over 500. m in prominence.

Reinhold Messner, first to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, and first to do so without supplementary oxygen.

Edurne Pasaban, first woman to climb all 14 eight-thousanders after Oh Eun-sun’s claim was disputed.

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, first woman to climb all 14 eight-thousanders without supplementary oxygen.

On a variety of statistical techniques, the deadliest eight-thousander is consistently Annapurna I (one death – climber or climber support – for every three summiters), followed by K2 and Nanga Parbat (one death for every four to five summiters), and Dhaulagiri, and Kangchenjunga (one for every six to seven summiters).