What is Masherbrum?
[[File:Mashaburum Peak from Hushe.jpg|thumb|Masherbrum, view from Hushe]] '''Masherbrum''' is a {{convert|7821|m|ft}} [[mountain]] in the [[Karakoram]] [[Mountain range|range]], in Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/karakoram.html|title=High Asia I: The Karakoram, Pakistan Himalaya and India Himalaya (north of Nepal) |publisher= Peaklist.org | access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref> It was also once known as '''K1'''.<ref>{{cite book |title=K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain |url=https://archive.org/details/k2storyofsavagem0000curr |author = Curran, Jim | year=1995 |publisher=Hodder &amp; Stoughton |isbn=978-0-340-66007-2}}</ref> It is the [[List of highest mountains|22nd highest]] mountain in the world. The first people to reach the top of Masherbrum were George Irving Bell and Willi Unsoeld, in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|last=Clinch|first=Nicholas B|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212552/http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/2001/448_inmemoriam_aaj2001.pdf |url=http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/2001/448_inmemoriam_aaj2001.pdf |title=In Memorium |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons|Masherbrum}} {{multistub|Geo|Asia}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan]] [[Category:Karakoram]]