Pakistan · Himalayan Range8,126 m (26,660 ft)Nanga Parbat 3D Terrain Map & Relief Model
Interactive digital elevation model (DEM) for Nanga Parbat. Tilt, rotate, and inspect high-altitude summit ridges, glacial cirques, and approach routes in high-resolution 3D WebGL cartography.
Located on grassy moraines in the Diamir Valley. Serves as the team base camp and initial acclimatization area.
Pitched at the foot of the Kinshofer Couloir beneath the massive rock buttresses of the Diamir Face.
Reached by ascending the steep Kinshofer Wall, an exposed 100-meter headwall of granite and brittle ice that represents the main technical rock crux of the route.
Set on an icy shelf at the gateway to the upper glacier basin, offering panoramic views of the Diamir Face.
Located in the freezing, wind-swept Bazhin Basin. Climbers begin their final summit bid from here at midnight.
Reached via the upper trapezoid snow slopes and a sharp final crest to the summit plateau.
Staged near the foot of the Mazeno Pass below the colossal south-western flank.
Initial gateway to the ridge line, marking the divide between the Diamir and Rupal watersheds.
Exposed snow trench dug into a knife-edge corniced ridge overlooking the Rupal abyss.
Pitched atop the first subsidiary summit under severe Karakoram jet-stream gusts.
High snow cave hollowed into wind-packed firn amidst deteriorating rations and fuel.
The critical junction below the final Schell Route and Diamir Gap where the summit assault begins.
An emergency sub-zero snow hole excavated on the final upper couloir after eighteen days on the mountain.
Located on the idyllic green pastures of the Rupal Valley directly gazing up at the four-kilometre wall.
Pitched on a tiny snow ledge after navigating the lower ice runnels and mixed gullies.
A precarious snow shelf below the technical granite headwalls of the Central Pillar.
Perched on a razor-sharp mixed ridge amidst extreme exposure and howling valley winds.
Chiseled into a steep ice fluting beneath the upper headwall and summit couloirs.
High bivy beneath the summit trapezoid in the severe hypoxia of the Death Zone.
Established on grassy meadows along the lateral moraine of the Rakhiot Glacier below Fairy Meadows.
Pitched on a protected snow terrace above the lower icefall labyrinth.
Set in a wind-scoured glacial cirque directly beneath the Silver Saddle headwall.
The high assault camp perched on a steep snow spur from which Hermann Buhl launched his 1953 solo summit push.
The high Himalayan pass opening into the boundless, wind-swept summit plateau.
A deep, exposed depression along the summit ridge followed by mixed granite towers (the Buhl Shoulder).
The tiny, corniced snow crest forming the highest point of Nanga Parbat.
Total vertical rise from Diamir Base Camp (4,200m) directly to the summit crest.
DMS: 35°14′14″ N, 74°35′21″ E. Verified against alpine geodesy baselines.
The vertical drop to the lowest contour encircling the peak with no higher summit inside it.
Surrounded by lateral moraines, active icefalls, and high glaciated ridges feeding regional river systems.
Topographic Architecture of Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat, at 8,126 meters (26,660 ft), is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth and the western anchor of the Himalayas in Pakistan. It boasts the Rupal Face, the highest vertical precipice in the world at 4,600 meters from valley floor to summit. Known for profound climbing history, highlighted by Hermann Buhl's legendary solo summit without supplemental oxygen in 1953.