Recently, a team of 10 mountaineers were caught in an avalanche on the slopes of Broad Peak in the Karakoram range.
About Broad Peak:
Location: It is situated in the Karakoram ranges.
In the local Balti language, it is historically known as Falchan Kangri, which translates to “Broad Mountain”.
Origin of name: British explorer Sir Martin Conway coined the name in 1892, likened the mountain's elongated summit ridge — which stretches more than 1.5 km (0.93 miles) — to the Breithorn in the Swiss Alps.
It sits in the Karakoram ranges spanning Gilgit-Baltistan, and China's Xinjiang.
Formation: The Mountain was formed by the ongoing collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
Relief: It consists of massive plutonic granite blocks and layers of metamorphic rock.
Its snowpack and ice walls feed the Godwin-Austen and Baltoro glacier systems. The Broad Peak has a five-peak structure.
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