Abstract
THIS an account of the German-Austrian expedition of 1934, under the leadership of Willy Merkl, which attempted to climb the Western Himalayan mountain Nanga Parbat. This mountain culminates in a peak 26,620 ft. above sea-level—it is the tenth highest in the Himalaya. It rises directly from the Indus valley. Here it is possible to see in a single view from the river bed to the mountain top no less than 23,000 ft. of tremendous precipices. We believe this is the greatest amount of slope exposed in the world.
Nanga Parbat Adventure:
a Himalayan Expedition. Translated from the German of Fritz Bechtold by H. E. G. Tyndale. Pp. xx + 93 + 80 plates. (London: John Murray, 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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C., H. Nanga Parbat Adventure. Nature 136, 1005–1006 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361005a0
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