Gasherbrum is a remote group of peaks located at the northeastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya. The massif contains three of the world's 8,000 metre peaks. Gasherbrum means "shining wall" in the local language. Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Located in the mountainous region of Gilgit-Baltistan or the Northern Areas of Pakistan, the Karakoram is one of the great Himalayan mountain ranges, with many of the highest and most daunting peaks of the world. ... The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. ... In geology, a massif is a section of the Earths crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. ... Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Makalu and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station. ...

In 1856, T.G. Montgomery, a British Royal Engineers lieutenant and a member of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, sighted a group of high peaks in the Karakoram from more than 200 km away. He named five of these peaks K1, K2, K3, K4 and K5 where the K denotes Karakoram. Today, K1 is known as Masherbrum, K3 as Broad Peak, K4 as Gasherbrum II and K5 as Gasherbrum I. Only K2, the second highest mountain in the world, has kept Montgomery's name. Gasherbrum I (also known as Hidden Peak or K5) is the eleventh highest peak on Earth. ... Broad Peak (originally named K3) is the twelfth highest mountain on Earth. ... Gasherbrum II (also known as K4) is the thirteenth highest mountain on Earth. ... Gasherbrum III, situated between Gasherbrum II and IV of the Gasherbrum massif, is the fifteenth highest mountain in the world. ... Gasherbrum IV is one of the peaks in the Gasherbrum massif. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Masherbrum is a mountain in the Karakoram region of the Pakistani Himalayas. ... K2 , the second highest mountain in the world (official name in China: Qogir; Chinese: 乔戈里峰, Pinyin: Qiáogēlǐ Fēng; also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, Lambha Pahar, Chogori, Kechu or Dapsang) is located in the Karakoram, part of the Himalaya range, in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang (China), at the...