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Nanga Parbat is also the second most prominent peak of the Himalayas, after Mount Everest. The key col for Nanga Parbat is Zoji La in Kashmir Valley, which connects it to higher peaks in the remaining Himalaya-Karakoram range. [16] On the Tibetan Plateau, Nanga Parbat is the westernmost peak of the Himalayas, whereas Namcha Barwa marks the east ...
The summit of Nanga Parbat, as seen from the air. Nanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain. It's known for being extremely hard to climb; named the "Killer Mountain" by the 1953 German expedition, first to successfully reach the peak.
The 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster resulted in the loss of 10 lives on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-highest mountain [1] and one of the 14 eight-thousanders. [2] The disaster, which happened during the 1934 climbing season, included nine climbers who died in what was, at the time, the single deadliest mountaineering accident in history.
The 2013 Nanga Parbat massacre was a terrorist attack that took place on the night of 22 June 2013 in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan.About 16 terrorists, reportedly dressed in Gilgit−Baltistan Scouts uniforms, stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp and killed 11 people; 10 climbers and one local tourist guide. [1]
Fairy Meadows (Urdu: فیری میڈوز), named by German climbers (German Märchenwiese, "fairy tale meadows") [1] [2] and locally known as Joot, [3] is an area of grassland near one of the base camp sites of Nanga Parbat, located in Diamer District in Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan. [4]
The Mazeno Ridge forms part of the Nanga Parbat mountain range. With a length of 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from Mazeno Pass to Mazeno Col, Mazeno is the longest ridge on any eight-thousander summit. [4] [5] It starts to the west of Nanga Parbat and heads north-east to the summit. The southwestern portion of this main ridge is known as the Mazeno Wall.
Nanga Parbat Mountain is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia at the head of the Mummery Glacier, North of Golden. [5] It was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after the ninth highest mountain in the world Nanga Parbat, located in the Himalayas.
Élisabeth Revol (born 29 April 1979) is a French mountaineer. In January 2018, Revol became the first woman to climb Nanga Parbat in winter [citation needed]; on the descent, she was rescued, while her teammate Tomasz Mackiewicz died, an event which was widely covered by the mainstream press.