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K12 (mountain)
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K12
K12
[gilgit baltistan]
Highest point
Elevation 7,428 m (24,370 ft) [1]
Ranked 61st
Prominence 1,978 m (6,490 ft) [1]
Listing Ultra
Coordinates
35°19′16.9″N 76°59′59.9″ECoordinates:
35°19′16.9″N 76°59′59.9″E
Geography
Location Siachen glacier
Parent range Saltoro Mountains, Karakoram
Climbing
First ascent 1974 by Shinichi Takagi, Tsutomu Ito (Japanese)
Easiest route snow/ice climb
K12 (Urdu: کے ۱۲) is the second highest peak in the Saltoro Mountains, a subrange of the Karakoram range in the Siachen region. It lies near the Line of Control. Its name comes from its designation given during the original survey of the Karakoram range.
K12 lies to the southwest of the Siachen Glacier; the K12 glacier heads on its northeast slopes and feeds the Siachen. The western slopes of K12 drain to the Bilafond Glacier system, and thence to the Dansam River, and eventually the Indus River.
K12 has seen little climbing activity, partly because of the unsettled political situation and the continued military presence in the area. It was first attempted in 1960, after a reconnaissance visit by famed explorer Eric Shipton in 1957. After a further unsuccessful attempt by a Japanese party in 1971, another Japanese expedition put two climbers, Shinichi Takagi and Tsutomu Ito, on the summit. They fell and died on the descent, and their bodies were not recovered. Another Japanese expedition returned in 1975 and made the second ascent. In 1984 the Indian army took hold of this peak as part of its plan to block any claims on the Siachen Glacier by Pakistan but Pakistan took it back after a year. No subsequent climbs or attempts are recorded in the Himalayan Index.[2]
https://earth.google.com/web/@35.25...zYzhiMzE6MHgyYTE5Mzk4N2I0MWIyMjNjKgNLMTIYAiAB
Google Earth gives a good view of how much India is occupying of northern Pakistan and why Pakistan should retake it. IOK is really northern Pakistan and why the British handed it to the Indians is huge injustice.
Karakoram is a Turkic term meaning black gravel. The Central Asian traders originally applied the name to the Karakoram Pass.[6] Early European travellers, including William Moorcroft and George Hayward, started using the term for the range of mountains west of the pass, although they also used the term Muztagh (meaning, "Ice Mountain") for the range now known as Karakoram.[6][7] Later terminology was influenced by the Survey of India, whose surveyor Thomas Montgomerie in the 1850s gave the labels K1 to K6 (K for Karakoram) to six high mountains visible from his station at Mount Haramukh in Kashmir.
K-numbers[edit]
View from the top of K2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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K12
K12
[gilgit baltistan]
Highest point
Elevation 7,428 m (24,370 ft) [1]
Ranked 61st
Prominence 1,978 m (6,490 ft) [1]
Listing Ultra
Coordinates
Geography
Location Siachen glacier
Parent range Saltoro Mountains, Karakoram
Climbing
First ascent 1974 by Shinichi Takagi, Tsutomu Ito (Japanese)
Easiest route snow/ice climb
K12 (Urdu: کے ۱۲) is the second highest peak in the Saltoro Mountains, a subrange of the Karakoram range in the Siachen region. It lies near the Line of Control. Its name comes from its designation given during the original survey of the Karakoram range.
K12 lies to the southwest of the Siachen Glacier; the K12 glacier heads on its northeast slopes and feeds the Siachen. The western slopes of K12 drain to the Bilafond Glacier system, and thence to the Dansam River, and eventually the Indus River.
K12 has seen little climbing activity, partly because of the unsettled political situation and the continued military presence in the area. It was first attempted in 1960, after a reconnaissance visit by famed explorer Eric Shipton in 1957. After a further unsuccessful attempt by a Japanese party in 1971, another Japanese expedition put two climbers, Shinichi Takagi and Tsutomu Ito, on the summit. They fell and died on the descent, and their bodies were not recovered. Another Japanese expedition returned in 1975 and made the second ascent. In 1984 the Indian army took hold of this peak as part of its plan to block any claims on the Siachen Glacier by Pakistan but Pakistan took it back after a year. No subsequent climbs or attempts are recorded in the Himalayan Index.[2]
https://earth.google.com/web/@35.25...zYzhiMzE6MHgyYTE5Mzk4N2I0MWIyMjNjKgNLMTIYAiAB
Google Earth gives a good view of how much India is occupying of northern Pakistan and why Pakistan should retake it. IOK is really northern Pakistan and why the British handed it to the Indians is huge injustice.
Karakoram is a Turkic term meaning black gravel. The Central Asian traders originally applied the name to the Karakoram Pass.[6] Early European travellers, including William Moorcroft and George Hayward, started using the term for the range of mountains west of the pass, although they also used the term Muztagh (meaning, "Ice Mountain") for the range now known as Karakoram.[6][7] Later terminology was influenced by the Survey of India, whose surveyor Thomas Montgomerie in the 1850s gave the labels K1 to K6 (K for Karakoram) to six high mountains visible from his station at Mount Haramukh in Kashmir.
K-numbers[edit]
View from the top of K2
- K1: Masherbrum
- K2: an unnamed 8,611m peak at the head of the Godwin-Austen Glacier
- K3: Gasherbrum IV
- K3a: Gasherbrum III
- K4: Gasherbrum II
- K5: Gasherbrum I
- K6: Baltistan Peak
- K7: an unnamed 6,934m peak at the head of the Charakusa Valley
- https://earth.google.com/web/search...H610VAEUwXaIncXj1AGe4A38tDZVVAIa7YI4XuslBAKAI
- K8: an unnamed 7,422m peak on the western flank of the Siachen Glacier
- K9: an unnamed 7,000m (approx) peak near Trango Towers
- K10: Saltoro Kangri I
- K11: Saltoro Kangri II
- K12: an unnamed 7,428m subsidiary peak of Saltoro Kangri
- K13: Dansam 6,666m peak south west of Saltoro Kangri
- K22: Saser Kangri I
- K25: Pastan Kangri 6,523m peak south of the Saltoro group
- K35: Mamostong Kangri
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