9- NANGA PARBAT (Killer Mountain)

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Nanga Parbat is the 9th highest mountain in this planet. It is the western anchor of the Himalayas around which the Indus river skirts before it debouches into the plains of Pakistan. Nanga Parbat means naked mountain. It is situated in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.

Nanga Parbat is one of the eight-thousanders, with a summit elevation of 26,660 ft (8,126 metres). An immense, dramatic peak rising far above its surrounding terrain, Nanga Parbat is also a notoriously difficult climb. Numerous mountaineering casualties in the mid and early twentieth century lent it the nickname "killer mountain". This mountain has never been climbed in winter.

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