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 ...