The Himalayas are a great mountain range formed by the collision of indo-Pakistan Tectonic plate with the Asian continent. The central Himalayan Mountains are situated in Nepal, while the eastern mountains extend to borders of Bhutan and Sikkim. Nanga Parbat Massif is the western corner pillar of the Himalayas. It| is an isolated range of peaks just spring up from nothing and is surrounded by the river Indus and Astore. Nanga Parbat or Nanga Parvata means the naked mountain. It’s original and appropriate name, however is Diamir the king of the mountains the legendary mountaineer, harmann buhl climbed the peak first time in June 1953.
Nanga Parbat has a height of 8126m it has three vast faces. The Raikot face is dominated by the North and south silver crags and silver plateau, the diamir face is rocky in the beginning it converts itself into ice field around Nanga Parbat peak. The Rupal face is the highest precipice in the world. Nanga Parbat has always been associated with tragedies and tribulations until it was climbed in 1953. A lot mountaineers perished on Nanga Parbat since 1895 even today it is claiming a heavy tell of human life lives from the mountaineers in search of adventure and thrill or becoming its victim in persite of their eagerness to find new and absolutely unclimbed route leading to its summit.