Information About ™Gasherbrum |
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| mountains of asia | |
| mountains of pakistan | |
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, the 13th highest of the world]] Gasherbrum is a remote group of Peaks located at the northeastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya . The Massif contains three of the world's 8,000 Metre Peaks (if one includes Broad Peak). Gasherbrum is often claimed to mean "Shining Wall", presumably a reference to the highly visible face of Gasherbrum IV; but in fact it comes from "rgasha" (beautiful) + "brum" (mountain) in Balti, hence it actually means "beautiful mountain." In 1856 , T.G. Montgomerie, a British Royal Engineers lieutenant and a member of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India , sighted a group of high peaks in the Karakoram from more than 200 km away. He named five of these peaks K1, K2, K3, K4 and K5 where the K denotes Karakoram. Today, K1 is known as Masherbrum , K3 as Broad Peak, K4 as Gasherbrum II and K5 as Gasherbrum I. Only K2 , the second highest mountain in the world, has kept Montgomerie's name. SEE ALSO
SOURCES H. Adams Carter, "Balti Place Names in the Karakoram", ''American Alpine Journal'' 49 (1975), p. 53. |
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