Gasherbrum (Urdu: ‫ )گاشر برم‬is a remote group of peaks located at the northeastern end of

the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya on the border of

the Chinese- Xinjiang province and the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. The massif contains
three of the world's 8,000 metre peaks (if Broad Peak is included). Although the word
"Gasherbrum" is often claimed to mean "Shining Wall",[citation needed] presumably a reference to the
highly visible face of Gasherbrum IV,[original research?] it comes from "rgasha" (beautiful) + "brum"
(mountain) in Balti, hence it actually means "beautiful mountain".[citation needed]

Contents

 1Geography
 2Climbing history
 3See also
 4Sources
 5References

Geography[edit]
Latitude Longitude
Peak metres feet Prominence (m)
(N) (E)

Gasherbrum I 8,080 26,509 35°43′27″ 76°41′48″ 2,155

Broad Peak 8,047 26,400 35°48′35″ 76°34′06″ 1,701

Gasherbrum II 8,035 26,362 35°45′27″ 76°39′15″ 1,523

Gasherbrum III 7,952 26,089 35°45′34″ 76°38′31″ 355

Gasherbrum IV 7,925 26,001 35°45′39″ 76°37′00″ 725

Gasherbrum V 7,147 23,448 35°43′45″ 76°36′48″ 654

Gasherbrum VI 6,979 22,897 35°42′30″ 76°37′54″ 520

Gasherbrum VII 6,955 22,818 39°44'19" 76°36'0" 165

Gasherbrum 6,912 and 22,677 and

35°34'13" 76°35'36" 162
Twins 6,877 22,562
In 1856, Thomas George Montgomerie, a British Royal Engineers lieutenant and a member of
the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, sighted a group of high peaks in the Karakoram from
more than 200 km away. He named five of these peaks K1, K2, K3, K4 and K5, where the "K"
denotes Karakoram. Today, K1 is known as Masherbrum, K3 as Gasherbrum IV, K4
as Gasherbrum II and K5 as Gasherbrum I. Only K2, the second highest mountain in the world,
has retained Montgomerie's name. Broad Peak was thought to miss out on a K-number as it was
hidden from Montgomerie's view by the Gasherbrum group.

Climbing history[edit]
altitud
Mountain first ascent first winter ascent
e

1958 by Pete Schoening and A. J. 2012 by Adam Bielecki, Janusz

Gasherbrum I 8068 m
Kauffman (USA) Gołąb (Poland)[1]

1957 by Marcus Schmuck, Fritz 2013 by Adam Bielecki, Artur

Broad Peak
Wintersteller, Kurt Małek, Maciej
(if included in 8047 m
Diemberger and Hermann Berbeka, Tomasz
group)
Buhl (Austria) Kowalski (Poland)

2011 by Simone
Gasherbrum 1956 by Fritz Moravec, S. Larch, Moro (Italy), Denis
8035 m
II H. Willenpart (Austria) Urubko (Kazakhstan), Cory
Richards (United States)

1975 by Wanda Rutkiewicz, A.

Gasherbrum Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz, Janusz
7952 m Unclimbed in winter
III Onyszkiewicz and K. Zdzitowiecki
(Poland)

Gasherbrum 1958 by Walter Bonatti and Carlo

7925 m Unclimbed in winter
IV Mauri (Italy)

Gasherbrum 2014 by S. Nakjong and A. Chi

7147 m Unclimbed in winter
V Young (Korea)

Unclimbed, attempted 1998 by a

French group (two dead) and a
Gasherbrum
7001 m Danish group (Bo Belvedere Unclimbed in winter
VI
Christensen, Mads Granlien and
Jan Mathorne reaching 6200 m)

Gasherbrum 6755 m 2019 by Cala Cimenti (Italy)[2] Unclimbed in winter

VII

Gasherbrum
Unclimbed Unclimbed in winter
Twins

See also