Gasherbrum V ( ur, ) is a mountain in the
Gasherbrum massif, located in the
Karakoram range
The Karakoram is a mountain range in Kashmir region
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Gilgit–Baltistan
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Location and naming
The
Gasherbrum massif is a remote group of
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located at the northeastern end of the
Baltoro Glacier
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in the
Karakoram
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range of the
Himalaya
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. The
massif
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contains three of the world's
8,000 metre peaks (if one includes Broad Peak). Gasherbrum is often claimed to mean "Shining Wall", presumably a reference to the highly visible face of Gasherbrum IV; but in fact it comes from "rgasha" (beautiful) + "brum" (mountain) in Balti, hence it actually means "beautiful mountain."
While the four highest Gasherbrum peaks (Gasherbrum I to IV) have been named and numbered since the 19th century, Gasherbrum V (as well as its neighbour
Gasherbrum VI
Gasherbrum VI ( ur, ), also known as Chochordin Peak, is a 6979m mountain in the Gasherbrum massif, located in the Karakoram range of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, ...
) were only considered as "Peaks on the south ridge of Gasherbrum IV". The Swiss Geologist and Himalayan expert
Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth
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recommended to give this independent mountain an own name and proposed in 1934 the name of "Gasherbrum V", which is now well established.
[G. O. Dyhrenfurth: Zum Dritten Pol. München, 1952, S. 239]
Altitude and climbing status
Although in former literature a height around 7,320 m was traditionally given, the mountain is more likely to be around 7,150 m high. The Russian military 1:100,000 topographical map shows a height of 7,120 m. The currently most accurate map of the region probably is that in the series of "Maps of Snow Mountains in China", which gives a height of 7,147 m. On this map the pass connecting to Gasherbrum III is 6,493 m high (654 m prominence).
See also
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Concordia (Pakistan)
Concordia ( ur, کونکورڈیا) is the confluence of the Baltoro Glacier and the Godwin-Austen Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan. It is located in the Baltistan region of Pakistan, at above sea level. The area is often used ...
*
Northern Areas
Gilgit-Baltistan (; ), formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory, and constituting the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region which has been the subject of a dispute bet ...
*
List of mountains in Pakistan
Pakistan is home to 108 peaks above 7,000 metres and 4555 above 6,000 m. There is no count of the peaks above 5,000 and 4,000 m. Five of the 14 highest independent peaks in the world (the eight-thousanders) are in Pakistan (four of which lie in ...
Notes
External links
8000ers.com
Mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan
Seven-thousanders of the Karakoram
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