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Nanga Paebat.
Nanga Parbat is the most isolated and perhaps the most imposing of all the peaks of Asia. With the exception of subordinate pinnacles rising from its own buttresses, no peak within 60 miles of Nanga Parbat attains an altitude of more than 17000 feet. Throughout a circle of 120 miles diameter Nanga Parbat surpasses all other summits by more than 9000 feet. Its upper 5000 feet are precipitous. "Perhaps in describing mountains," wrote John Ruskin in Modern Painters, " with any effort to give some idea of their sublime forms, no expression comes oftener "to the lips than the word ' peak,' and yet it is curious, how rarely even among the "grandest ranges an instance can be found of a mountain ascertainably peaked in the "true sense of the word,—pointed at the top and sloping steeply on all sides." Nanga Parbat Fairy Meadows in Pakistan Elevation: 8,126 m (26,660 ft) Ranked 9th A traveler in the Himalaya, who has stud...
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