Mountains Of Gilgit Baltistan.

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K2, also known as Chhogori/Qogir, Ketu/Kechu, and Mount Godwin-Austen(Native Balti  name:Chhoghori) Balti is the second highest mountain in the world at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), . It is located  Baltistan, in the Gilgit Baltistan region of northern Pakistan,  K2 is the highest point of the Karakourm Range and the highest point in Pakistan

Nanga Parbat  is the ninth highest mountain in the world at 8,126 metres (26,660 ft) above sea level. It is the western anchor of the Himalayas around which the Indus river skirts into the plains of Pakistan. It is located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of the Pakistan.


Gasherbrum I  also known as Hidden Peak or K5, is the 11th highest mountain in the world at 8,080 metres (26,510 ft) above sea level. It is located on the Pakistani–Chinese border in Gilgit-Blatistan region of Pakistan. Gasherbrum I is part of the Gasherbrum massif, located in the Karakoram region of the Himalays. Gasherbrum is often claimed to mean "Shining Wall", presumably a reference to the highly visible face of the neighboring peak Gasherbrum IV; but in fact it comes from "rgasha" (beautiful) + "brum" (mountain) in Balti hence it actually means "beautiful mountain."
  
Gasherbrum II also known as K4, is the 13 highest mountian in the world at 8,035 metres (26,362 ft) above sea level. It is the third-highest peak of the Gasherbrum massif, and is located in the karakoram, on the border between Gilgit Baltistan province, Pakistan, and The mountain was first climbed on July 7, 1956, by an Austrian expedition which included Fritz Moravec, Josef Larch, and Hans Willenpart.
Broad Peak is the in 12 highest mountian the world at 8,051 metres (26,414 ft) above sea level.  The English name was introduced in 1892 by the British explorer Martin Conway.

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