GREAT MOUNTAINS IN PAKISTAN

The spectacular conjection of the Godwin-Austin and Baltoro Glaciers is called Concordia. This austere amphitheatre, surrounded by many mountain peaks over 7,925 meters (26,000 feet) high, is perhaps the most imposing natural landscape in the world.


Of the fourteen 8,000 metre-high (26,250 feet) mountains on earth, four are found in Concordia - K-2 at 8,611.5 metres (28,253 feet) second only to Everest, Broad Peak 8,046.72 metres (26,400 feet) Gasherbrum-1 8,068 metres (26,470 feet), and Gasherbrum-II 8,034.52 metres (26,360 feet).

In the Lesser Karakoram there are equally great peaks such as RAKAPOSHI, 7,788 metres (25,552 feet), face a fantastic, sheer 5,791.2 metres (19,000 feet) precipice of plunging snow and ice.

And there are countless mountains of more than 7,000 metres in the karakoram range, and hundreds of nameless summits above 6,000 metres, mere points on the map.

The shapes, sizes, and colors provide such the indisputable monarch of the sky, massive and ugly MUSTAGH TOWER, deceptively sheer Gasherbrum II, "the Egyptian Pyramid" that even and BROAD PEAK in whose eternal embrace lies Hermann Buhl, the first man to climb Nanga Parbat.

BALTORO CATHEDRALS with their great knife-edge ridges, the sky-cleaving monoliths of Trango Towers, and -most beautiful of all - the Peak of Perfection, PAIJU 6,600 metres, first climbed by a Pakistani expedition in 1977.
The HINDU KUSH is also a vast mountain fastness containing hundreds of peaks, many above 7,000 metres, including TIRICH MIR, 7,787.64 metres which is the highest point of the range and the forty-first highest mountain in the world.

In the league of Great Mountains this is how Pakistan stands according to the Royal GeographicSociety of Britain: