Nanga Parbat
Americannoun
noun
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Annapurna and Nanga Parbat are particularly deadly, killing a quarter or more of the mountaineers who undertake an ascent, though not the semilegendary Maurice Herzog and Reinhold Messner.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
He told The Associated Press that Sherpa had already scaled the world’s other highest mountains, including Mount Everest, K2, and Nanga Parbat, known as “Killer Mountain” because of its dangerous conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
In 2019, her son, Tom Ballard, died at 30 making a run at Nanga Parbat nearby in the Himalayas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
He is the only Pakistani to have climbed eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, and he made the first ever winter ascent of the world's ninth highest peak, Nanga Parbat.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2021
The sun was going down fast into a fleecy bed of clouds, amid which I knew that Nanga Parbat lay swathed from sight.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
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