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Article: Nanga Parbat, The Killer Mountain.
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- Weatherwise
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Weather buffs often ponder the location of the earth's most inhospitable atmospheric conditions. Destinations like the South Pole and Siberia come to mind. Even subarctic Mount McKinley and the ice-plastered granite towers of southern Patagonia are considered. While conclusively identifying any one spot as the home of the globe's most extreme weather would be nearly impossible, a researcher tasked with compiling a list of the ten locations with the most dangerous weather would have to include Nanga Parbat near the top of such a list.
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Deriving its name from the Urdu words meaning naked mountain (for the peak's bare, windswept slopes), Nanga Parbat ...
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Article: Climber stranded on Himalayas' 'killer' ledge.(Foreign News)
The Independent (London, England);
August 9, 2005 ;
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......make contact with Mr Humar, 5,900m up Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth- highest mountain...Humar. He told the BBC: 'Not only is Nanga Parbat the most dangerous mountain in the world...snowstorms which have been swirling around Nanga Parbat were expected to ease last night.
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