Nanga Parbat
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Nanga Parbat, known in Shina as Diamer, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth with its summit at 8,126 m above sea level. Lying immediately southeast of the northernmost bend of the Indus River in th
Nanga Parbat viewed from Fairy Meadows
Nanga Parbat as viewed from Karakoram Highway
Nanga Parbat and the moraine below it, seen from Fairy Meadows
Aerial view of the northern face of Nanga Parbat as seen from above Fairy Meadows
Eight-thousander
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The eight-thousanders are 14 mountains recognised by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation with summits that exceed 8,000 metres in elevation above sea level and are sufficiently in
Nanga Parbat
…as bounded by the Indus and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra rivers, it is the western anchor of the entire mountain range. Nanga Parbat is one of the 14 eight-thousanders. It rises far above its surrounding terrain and has the second-highest prominence among the 100 tallest mountains on Earth only behind Mount Everest…
Flight over the Khumbu region; six eight-thousanders are visible
Edurne Pasaban, the first woman to climb all 14 after Oh Eun-sun's claim was disputed
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, the first woman to climb all 14 without oxygen
No. 1 – Mount Everest