Nanga Parbat Expedition

The Nanga Parbat (8125 M) is the ninth highest mountain on Earth and the second highest in Pakistan. Nanga Parbat means "Naked Mountain" in Urdu, is popularly known as the "Killer Mountain" due to the highest causalities in the first half of the twentieth century. It is immense and dramatic peak of the western corner of the Himalayas. It lies just south of the Indus River, in the Diamir District of the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The first expedition in 1895 led by Albert F. Mummery to this peak started the mountaineers challenge. Six German expeditions attempted the peak in the 1930 s, but none succeeded, and dozens of climbers died in storms and avalanches. German expedition was first climbed on July 3, 1953 by Hermann Buhl.