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Chilean
Expedition to Gasherbrum I: Featured
Expedition
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THE
HIDDEN PEAK:
The Hidden Peak or Gasherbrum I, 8068 meters, is one of the most
remote 8000 peaks. It is an eight day walk though many
ravines and glaciers to arrive at base camp. The
face of G1 is known as a pyramid of sheer granite faces,
which requires great technique from a
mountaineer in order to have success.
Gasherbrum means
"mountain of the light" in the old
Balti dialect. It was ascended for first time for a
North American expedition in 1958. It is
located in the frontier between Pakistan and the
county of Sinkiang in China, in the mountain range of
Karakorum. |
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Hidden
Peak or Gasherbrum I 8068 meters
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Hidden
Peak - Gasherbrum I, also called K5
Range
of the mountain: Himalaya
Massive: Karakoram, Baltoro Muztagh Longitude:° 76 42 ' AND, Latitude 35° 43 ' N.
Pakistan
Height: 8.068 accountants
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The
first references of Gasherbrum I goes back to 1861 on the part of the lieutenant H. H.
Godwin Austen. The height of the mountain was
determined during the period 1889-1929, while it
was photographed for the first time also by an
English expeditionary M. Conway, during
this time the mountain was called
the highest or hidden peak due to their
estrangement and the sustained formations of the
pyramid.
The
Karakorum
A
better
place doesn't exist to carry out
mountain exercises and expeditions than
inside the Karakorum (Pakistan). The
area enjoys the unique
advantages of three groups of the
highest mountains of the world.
The
Karakorum is the proud possession of
Pakistan. The Karakorum has provided
always a lot of adrenaline,
fascination and attraction to a great
number of Mountaineers and Trekkers,
constituting a point of challenge for Mountaineers.
These
are majestic, impressive mountains in the Karakoram. They are a unique
range of mountains in more than one aspect. They
possess the highest peaks in the world, inside
the radius of hundred (100) miles. The Karakorum
are seen by people in China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and
the former USSR. Pakistan
has honor of possessing five of 14 8000 meter
peaks. The
highest second of the 14 ,K2 at 8611 meters, Gasherbrum I at
8068 meters, Broad Peak at 8047 meters, Gasherbrum II
at 8035 meters (all in the range of
the Karakorum), and Nanga Parbat 8126 meters (range of
Himalaya).
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There
are 82 peaks of 7000 meters or more in the
range of Karakorum. And 101 peaks of 7000
meters or more in all of Pakistan. There are more
than 120 peaks with heights on greater than 6000 meters, and most of these
peaks remain unconquered with half having a height of 6550
meters. And there are countless peaks starting from the 3000 to 6000 meters
that have not been conquered once. |
Himalaya
is the worlds highest mountain range. It ranges approx. 2500 km long,
where it's widest point is in
the west (appox. 200km) and highest in the east (up to
8848m). The mountain range stretches from the Indus valley in
the west to the Brahmaputras valley in the east. The
mountain range makes up an inaccessible and mythological
barrier between the India flatlands and
Central Asia high plateau.
The
Karakorum possesses 40 glaciers, longer and
more important ones are (Siachen) 46.6 miles,
Batura 34 miles and Baltoro 32.5 miles and other
glaciers like GODWIN AUSTIN, BIAFO HISPER, CHOGOLISA,
GODOGORO, BIARCHEDI KABERI, VIGNE, HISPAR,
Bilafond, Virjerb, Yazgil,
Khurdpin and many others.
A
great
number of tourists and adventures visit the region every year to
enjoy the beauty of these mountains. The
region is a paradise for
Mountaineers with summits and magnificent glaciers.
Although
the most famous mountains are already explored, a great
numbers of peaks
and glaciers still exist to be explored in
the region.
Hidden
Peak or Gasherbrum I
The
first Summit of Hidden Peak or Gasherbrum I in 1958
was by
an American expedition - Andrew Kauffman and Pete
Schoening (U.S.A.) on July 14th.
There
have been only been 162 Summits of Gasherbrum
I with 17 deaths.
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