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Rakaposhi
Rakaposhi (; ) also known as Dumani () is a mountain within the Karakoram range in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It is situated in the middle of the Nagar and Bagrote valleys. The mountain is extremely broad, measuring almost from east to west. It is the only peak on earth that descends directly and without interruption for almost 6,000 meters from its summit to its base. Geography Rakaposhi is a mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, about north of the city of Gilgit. It is the 27th-highest mountain in the world and ranked 122nd by prominence. Rakaposhi rises over the Nagar Valley. The first successful recorded ascent was in 1958 by Mike Banks and Tom Patey, members of a British expedition, via the southwest Spur/Ridge route. It was over 20 years before another team succeeded in reaching the summit, in 1979. Park Rakaposhi is also known as Dumani ("Mother of Mist" or "Mother of Clouds"). The people of Nagar and Bagrot Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakaposhi - View From Across The Valley
Rakaposhi (; ) also known as Dumani () is a mountain within the Karakoram range in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It is situated in the middle of the Nagar Valley, Nagar and Bagrot Valley, Bagrote valleys. The mountain is extremely broad, measuring almost from east to west. It is the only peak on earth that descends directly and without interruption for almost 6,000 meters from its summit to its base. Geography Rakaposhi is a mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, about north of the city of Gilgit. It is the List of highest mountains, 27th-highest mountain in the world and ranked 122nd by List of peaks by prominence, prominence. Rakaposhi rises over the Nagar Valley. The first successful recorded ascent was in 1958 by Mike Banks (mountaineer), Mike Banks and Tom Patey, members of a United Kingdom, British expedition, via the southwest Spur/Ridge route. It was over 20 years before another team succeeded in reaching the summit, in 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Highest Mountains
There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of or greater above sea level. Of these, 14 are more than . The vast majority of these mountains are part of either the Himalayas or the Karakoram mountain ranges located on the edge of the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate in China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Discussion The dividing line between a mountain with multiple peaks and separate mountains is not always clear (see also Highest unclimbed mountain). A popular and intuitive way to distinguish mountains from subsidiary peaks is by their height above the highest saddle connecting it to a higher summit, a measure called topographic prominence or re-ascent (the higher summit is called the "parent peak"). A common definition of a mountain is a summit with prominence. Alternatively, a relative prominence (prominence/height) is used (usually 7–8%) to reflect that in higher mountain ranges everything is on a larger scale. The table below lists the highest 100 summit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagar Valley
Nagar Valley once a princely state, now stands as one of the ten districts within the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. This valley is situated along the renowned Karakoram Highway, as one travels northward from the city of Gilgit. The valley is home to many high mountain peaks including Rakaposhi (7788m), Diran Peak (7265m), Golden Peak and Rush Peak. The Nagar valley is administratively divided into two tehsils: Nagar-I and Nagar-II. All the villages of upper Nagar including Shayar, Askurdas, Sumayar, Nagarkhas, Hoper Valley, and Hispar come under Nagar-I, which collectively form Sas Valley. The villages of lower Nagar including Chalt Paeen, Chalt Bala, Sonikot, Akbarabad, Rabat, Bar, Buddalas, Chaprote, Sikandarabad, Jafarabad, Nilt, Thol, Ghulmet, Pisan, Minapin, Miachar, Dadhimal, Phakker, and Hakuchar are part of Nagar-II. Both tehsils are also commonly referred to by their size. Nagar-I is called as 'Chota Nagar' (چھوٹا نگر) in Urdu, meaning Smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mian Hayaud Din
Mian Hayaud Din (2 July 1910 – 20 May 1965) was a Pakistani military officer who served in the British Indian Army during the Second World War and later became Chief of General Staff. Early life and education Mian Hayaud Din was born in Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province. Mian Hayaud Din studied at the Edwardes Mission School and then Islamia College, Peshawar, before being selected in an All-India competition to be a cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Career in the British Indian Army He was commissioned a King's Commissioned Indian Officer from Sandhurst on the Unattached List, Indian Army as of 28 January 1932, he was posted for his one-year regimental attachment to the 2nd battalion Royal Scots Regiment. He was the first non-British Officer to be so attached. This service commenced in Quetta, Baluchistan, where he met Ahmad Yar Khan, the Khan of Kalat, who was also attached to the same Regiment and they became close friends. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Band
George Christopher Band (2 February 1929 – 26 August 2011) was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain. In 1955, he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world. Biography George Band was born in Taiwan where his parents, Presbyterian missionaries, had lived since 1912. The island had been under Japanese control since 1895 and, by good fortune, the family left a fortnight before the attack on Pearl Harbor. When in the UK he was educated at Eltham College, that was followed by National Service with the Royal Corps of Signals (1947-1949). He then read Natural Sciences, with a specialism in Geology, at Queens' College, Cambridge. His Cambridge degree was punctuated by the Everest expedition and, after completing his final year on his return from Nepal, he then studied Petroleu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the surroundings of Concordia; the confluence of Baltoro Glacier and Godwin Austen Glacier). Most of the highest peaks in Pakistan lie in the Karakoram mountain range (which lies almost entirely in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan, and is considered to be a separate range from Himalayan range) but some peaks above 7,000 m are included in the Himalayan and Hindu Kush ranges. Moreover, Pakistan is home to over 7,000 glaciers, more than anywhere except the polar regions. Considerations The list is an incomplete list of mountains in Pakistan. There are many named and unnamed peaks in Pakistan that are currently not included in this list. The list also includes many peaks that are not usually classed as independent mountains, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Tissières
Alfred Tissières (October 14, 1917 – June 7, 2003) was a Swiss molecular biologist, a pioneer in highlighting the role of ribosomes in protein biosynthesis and the initiator of studies on heat shock proteins synthesized by cells subjected to stress. He shared the Marcel Benoist Prize with Edouard Kellenberger in 1966. Early life and education Tissières was born on October 14, 1917 in Martigny. He comes from the neighboring town of Orsières. After studying medicine in Lausanne, where he obtained a doctorate in 1946, Tissières left to do a PhD in England at Cambridge, at the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology in the laboratory of David Keilin. Professional and scientific career From 1951 to 1952, he carried out a postdoctoral internship in the laboratory of Max Delbrück at the California Institute of Technology. He worked there on the respiration of enterobacteria with Herschel K. Mitchell. In 1953 he returned to Cambridge as a research fellow at King's Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagrot Valley
Bagrot Valley () is a valley in the Karakoram range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. River Bagrot flows through the valley from the north to the southwest, supplying water to the settlements of Jalalabad and Oshikhandass before merging with the Gilgit River. Geography Bagrot valley extends between 2,500 and 4,500 meters above sea level. The principal locality of the valley is Farfu (formerly called Furpui), also known for its landscape and high mountains such as Rakaposhi (7,788 m), Diran (7,266 m), Bilchar Dobani (6,138 m) , Miar Peak, Godeli and many other peaks that surpass 6,000 meters above sea level. Doboi glaciers, Gargo, Yunay, Boi Pharai, Hurangi, and Raka Poshi surround the valley from where the rivulets forming the Bagrot River are traced. The River Bagrot passes by all the villages of the valley, including Jalalabad and Oshikhandass and merges with the Gilgit River. Bagrot Valley is 38 km from Gilgit and traveling time is two hours plu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Banks (mountaineer)
Michael Edward Borg Banks MBE (22 December 1922 – 9 February 2013) was a British soldier, adventurer, climber and author. Early life Banks was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, on 22 December 1922. His father Humphrey Borg, an engineer, and mother Elsie (nee Millicent) worked in Malta, where Banks was schooled until returning to Chippenham when he was 14. He adopted the surname Banks by deed poll, in adulthood. Banks was a vegetarian. Career and later life Banks joined the Royal Marines, with a commission, in January 1942. He was a member of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954). He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 25 November 1954. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1959. In 1958, he made the first ascent of Rakaposhi with Tom Patey as part of a British-Pakistani joint forces Himalayan expedition. At the age of 77, in May 2000, he climbed the Scottish sea stack, the Old Man o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagar, Pakistan
Nagarkhas (), also known as Oyum-Nagar, serves as the administrative center for the Nagar District in Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan and is one of the main towns of the district. Located along the Nagar River, this town also held the distinction of being the capital of the erstwhile princely state of Nagar. Today, the renowned Karakoram Highway traverses through Nagar, establishing a crucial connection between Pakistan and China via the Khunjerab Pass. This roadway traces the course of the Hunza-Nagar River for a portion of its journey, passing through Nagar and extending into the Hunza District. Location Nagar is situated within the Nagar River valley, approximately five miles southeast of the junction where the Nagar River meets the Hunza River, and is positioned just below Baltit. The Nagar Valley, historically known as Broshal, is situated at an elevation of 2,688 meters (8,822 feet). Nagarkhas, the primary town, also served as the capital of the former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Patey
Thomas Walton Patey (20 February 1932 – 25 May 1970) was a Scottish climber, mountaineer, doctor and writer. He was a leading Scottish climber of his day, particularly excelling on winter routes. He died in a climbing accident at the age of 38. He was probably best known for his humorous songs and prose about climbing, many of which were published posthumously in the collection ''One Man's Mountains''. Early life Patey was born on 20 February 1932 at Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was educated at Ellon Academy and Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. He studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1955 with a MB ChB. Medical career After becoming fully registered as a doctor, he served for four years as Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Marines at the 42 Commando School at Bickleigh. Patey then worked for eight years as a general practitioner (GP) in Ullapool, in the far north-west of Scotland. Climbing Patey first became interested in climbing while h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilgit
Gilgit (; Shina language, Shina: ; ) is a city in Pakistani-administered Gilgit-Baltistan, Gilgit–Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the WP:TERTIARY, tertiary sources (a) through (d), reflecting WP:DUE, due weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (f) through (h) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (i) below). (a) (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
