Gasherbrum I (Pakistan and China)

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Name (Hebrew)
גשרברום I (פקיסטן וסין)
Name (Latin)
Gasherbrum I (Pakistan and China)
Other forms of name
nne Gasherbrum I (Pakistan)
Gasherbrum Mountain (Pakistan and China)
Gasherbrum Shan (Pakistan and China)
Gusharbrum (Pakistan and China)
Hidden Peak (Pakistan and China))
K5 (Pakistan and China : Mountain)
Coordinates
76.69638889 76.69638889 35.72444444 35.72444444 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Mountains China
Mountains Pakistan
See Also From tracing place name
Karakoram Range
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q187138
Library of congress: sh 85053411
Sources of Information
  • GEOnet, Oct. 31, 2000(Gasherbrum I (Pakistan); Gasherbrum Shan (China), mt, 35⁰43ʹ00ʺN, 76⁰42ʹ00ʺE)
  • Peakware World Mountain Encyc. web site, Oct. 31, 2000(Gasherbrum I, Hidden Peak, K5, Location: Karakoram, Pakistan-China)
Wikipedia description:

Gasherbrum I (Balti: རྒ་ཥཱ་བྲུམ་། - ༡, romanized: rgasha brum - 1, lit. 'Beautiful Mountain - 1'; Urdu: گاشر برم - ۱; simplified Chinese: 加舒尔布鲁木I峰; traditional Chinese: 加舒爾布魯木I峰; pinyin: Jiāshūěrbùlǔmù I Fēng), surveyed as K5 and also known as Hidden Peak, is the 11th highest mountain in the world at 8,080 metres (26,510 ft) above sea level. It is located between Shigar District in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan and Tashkurgan in the Xinjiang of China. Gasherbrum I is part of the Gasherbrum Massif, located in the Karakoram region of the Himalaya. 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 I was designated K5 (meaning the 5th peak of the Karakoram) by T.G. Montgomerie in 1856 when he first spotted the peaks of the Karakoram from more than 200 km away during the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. In 1892, William Martin Conway provided the alternate name, Hidden Peak, in reference to its extreme remoteness. Gasherbrum I was first climbed on July 5, 1958, by Pete Schoening and Andy Kauffman of an eight-man American expedition led by Nicholas B. Clinch, Richard K. Irvin, Tom Nevison, Tom McCormack, Bob Swift and Gil Roberts were also members of the team.: 210–212 

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