Broad Peak, 12th highest of the world

Gasherbrum II, 13th highest of the world

Gasherbrum Group with Gasherbrum IV, Gasherbrum V, and Gasherbrum VI

Gasherbrum is a remote group of peaks located at the northeastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya. Broad Peak (originally named K3) known locally as Faichan Kangri, is the 12th highest Mountain on Earth. Gasherbrum II (also known as K4) is the 13th highest Mountain on Earth, located on the border of Pakistan-China Gasherbrum IV is the 17th highest mountain on Earth and the 6th highest in Pakistan. A mountain is a Landform that extends above the surrounding Terrain in a limited area with a peak The Baltoro Glacier, at 62 kilometers long is one of the longest Glaciers outside of the Polar regions. Karakoram is a mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, China, and India, located in the regions of Gilgit, Ladakh, and The massif contains three of the world's 8,000 metre peaks (if one includes Broad Peak). In Geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or Flexures In the movement of the crust, a massif The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent Mountains on Earth that are more than above Sea level. 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, Thomas George 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. Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country 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. Masherbrum (also known as K1) located in the Northern Areas of Pakistan is the 22nd highest mountain in the world and the 11th highest Only K2, the second highest mountain in the world, has kept Montgomerie's name. K2 is the second- highest Mountain on Earth (after Mount Everest)

See also

• Concordia, Pakistan
• Eight-thousander
• List of highest mountains
• List of mountains in Pakistan

Sources

• H. Concordia is the name for the confluence of the Baltoro Glacier and the Godwin-Austen Glacier, in the heart of the Karakoram range of Pakistan The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent Mountains on Earth that are more than above Sea level. The following is a list of the world's 100+ highest mountains per height Above sea level, all of which are located in Asia Pakistan is home to 108 peaks above 7000 metres and probably as many peaks above 6000 m Adams Carter, "Balti Place Names in the Karakoram", American Alpine Journal 49 (1975), p. 53.
• Mount Qogori (K2) {scale 1:100,000}; edited and mapped by Mi Desheng (Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology), the Xi´an Cartographic Publishing House.
• Dreams of Tibet: the pundits

Coordinates: 35°43′N 76°42′E / 35.717, 76.7