Key facts
- Type
- Mountain glacier
- Location
- Karakoram range, Gilgit-Baltistan
- Area
- 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi)
- Length
- 63 kilometres (39 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- glacier
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- Area
- 126
- Image
- Baltoro glacier from air.jpg
- Length
- 62
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- Commons category
- Baltoro Glacier
- mountain range
- Karakoram
- native label
- بلتورو گلیشیر
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Encyclopedic overview
The Baltoro Glacier (Balti: བལྟོརོ་གངས།, romanized: Baltoro gangs, lit. 'Bone breaker';Urdu: بالتورو گلیشیر) is a glacier located in the Shigar District of the Gilgit-Baltistan, a region in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
The glacier lies in the Karakoram range, and is surrounded by some of the world's highest peaks, including K2 (8,611 metres (28,251 ft)), the second highest mountain on Earth, as well as three other summits above 8,000 meters within a 20-kilometre radius.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baltoro Glacier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.