Broad Peak

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Recently, a team of 10 mountaineers were caught in an avalanche on the slopes of Broad Peak in the Karakoram range.

About Broad Peak

• Location: It is the world’s 12th-highest mountain (elevation of 8,051 m) situated in the Karakoram ranges.
• In the local Balti language, it is historically known as Falchan Kangri, which translates to “Broad Mountain”.
• Origin of name: British explorer Sir Martin Conway coined the name in 1892, likened the mountain’s elongated summit ridge — which stretches more than 1.5 km (0.93 miles) — to the Breithorn in the Swiss Alps.
• It sits in the Karakoram range spanning Gilgit-Baltistan, and China’s Xinjiang, roughly 8 km southeast of K2.
• Formation: The Mountain was formed by the ongoing collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
• Relief: It consists of massive plutonic granite blocks and layers of metamorphic rock.
• Its snowpack and ice walls feed the Godwin-Austen and Baltoro glacier systems.
• Broad Peak has a five-peak structure, three of which cross 8,000 metres. The main summit stands at 8,051 metres, the rocky summit at 8,028 metres and the Central Peak at 8,011 metres.

Source: IE

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