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
Every year, hundreds of local and foreign climbers try to scale K2, Nanga Parbat and the world’s other highest mountains located in the north.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
While the film jumps around chronologically, the present action follows Kate to Nanga Parbat after Tom’s death.
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
If we are insatiate of climbing or find the heat at Astor—only 7853 feet above the sea—oppressive, we have the ice-cone of Nanga Parbat, 26,629 feet high, within ten miles to the west.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
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