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Nanga Parbat

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Nanga Parbat, known in Shina as Diamer, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth, its summit reaching 8,126 meters above sea level. It rises immediately southeast of the northernmost bend of the Indus River in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, standing as the westernmost major peak of the Himalayan range. In the traditional view of the Himalayas as bounded by the Indus and the Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra rivers, Nanga Parbat forms the western anchor of the entire range.

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