Masherbrum

Or Ma·shar·brum

[muhsh-er-broom]

noun

1. a mountain in N India, in the Himalayas. 25,660 feet (7,821 meters).

Masherbrum

/ ˈmʌʃəˌbrʊm /

noun

1. a mountain in N India, in N Kashmir in the Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. Height: 7822 m (25 660 ft)

Example Sentences

In 1960, he had organized another first ascent in the Karakoram, leading a team of American and Pakistani mountaineers to the top of Masherbrum — sometimes known as Doomsday Mountain — at upward of 25,600 feet.

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“Nick had the capacity to fantasize and to translate fantasy into reality,” Tom Hornbein, who was part of the Masherbrum team, said in a telephone interview.

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Andrew and I flew for an hour back down the Baltoro Glacier, swinging in our helicopter past some of the most startling peaks in the world — Masherbrum, Trango Towers.

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