Rakhiot Peak
| Rakhiot Peak | ||
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 The Rakhiot side of Nanga Parbat with Rakhiot Peak on the far left |
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| height | 7070 m | |
| location | Pakistan | |
| Mountains | Himalayas | |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 15 '36 " N , 74 ° 38' 17" E | |
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| First ascent | Peter Aschenbrenner and Herbert Kunigk , 1934 | |
The Rakhiot peak , as one of the pre-summit of Nanga Parbat is a mountain in the Himalayas in Pakistan with a height of 7070 m . It is located at the end of the western Himalayan ridge in the northern, Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir. The mountain is part of the long east ridge of the Nanga Parbat and is located about four kilometers southeast of the main summit. The difference in altitude to the Indus Valley (and Karakoram Highway ) 25 km away is about 6000 m. The south sloping wall (Rupal flank) of the mountain is 3500 m high. The mountain consists mainly of granites and gneisses . Climatically, it is embedded in a thermal double zone.
The first ascent of the peak was achieved by Peter Aschenbrenner together with Herbert Kunigk on June 16 as part of the German-American Himalayan Expedition of 1932 .
During a German Nanga Parbat expedition on the night of June 14th to 15th, 1937, all seven expedition participants and nine Sherpas died on the northern flank of the mountain when a large ice avalanche buried a camp. Surviving scientists Luft and Troll , who were conducting research in the nearby valley, discovered the disaster on June 18 when they ascended to Camp IV.
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- ↑ See Herbert Tichy: On distant summits. Vienna 1976, p. 214f.