K2(Godwin Austen)

Elevation: 28,253 feet (8,612 meters)
Prominence: 13,179 feet (4,017 meters)
Location: Pakistan/China, Asia
Coordinates: 35°52′57″ N 76°30′48″ E
First Ascent: Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli (Italy), July 31, 1954


K2, located on the Pakistan-Chinese border, is the 2nd highest mountain in the world; Pakistan's highest mountain; and the world's 22nd most prominent mountain.

                

Naga Parbat (Killer Mountain)

Elevation: 26,658 feet (8,125 meters)
Location: Pakistan, Asia
First Ascent: Hermann Buhl (Austria), July 3, 1953

• Nanga Parbet means “Naked Mountain” in Urdu.
• The Rupal Face on its south flank is the world’s tallest face, rising 15,000 feet from base to summit.
• First attempt was in 1895 by Alfred Mummery’s group, which reached 6,100 meters up the Diamir Face.

                    

Gasherbrum I

Elevation: 26,470 feet (8,068 meters)
Location: Pakistan/China, Asia
First Ascent: Andrew Kauffman and Pete Schoening (United States), July 3, 1958

• Gasherbrum is Balti for “Beautiful Mountain;” rgasha beautiful brum mountain. It’s also called Hidden Peak. It was first named K5 by T.G. Montgomerie on an 1856 survey.
• Located in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range, one of the world’s most remote regions, and almost 1,000 miles west of the Himalayas.

          
Broad Peak

Elevation: 26,400 feet (8,047 meters)
Location: Pakistan/China, Asia
First Ascent: Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger, Marcus Schmuck, and Fritz Wintersteller (Austria), June 9, 1957

• Broad Peak has no known local name. Some who wanted an indigenous name, translated Broad Peak from English into Balti, naming it P'alchan Kangri Ri.
• T.G. Montgomerie named it K3 during an 1856 survey. Later explorer W.M. Conway called it Broad Peak for its mile-long summit ridge.
• Broad Peak is located above the Baltoro Glacier in the remote Karakoram Range of northwestern Pakistan. It’s five miles from K2

Gasherbrum II

Elevation: 26,360 feet (8,035 meters)
Location: Pakistan, Asia
First Ascent: Josef Larch, Fritz Moravec, and Hans Willenpart (Austria), July 8, 1956

• Gasherbrum is Balti for “Beautiful Mountain;” rgasha beautiful brum mountain. It was first named K4 by T.G. Montgomerie on an 1856 survey.
• Located in the remote Karakoram Range in northwestern Pakistan.
• Gasherbrum II is not visible from any inhabited place.