Key facts
- Elevation
- 7,885 m (25,869 ft) , Ranked 19th
- Prominence
- 2,525 m (8,284 ft)
- Listing
- Mountains of Pakistan Ultra
- Native name
- دستاغل سر
- Location
- Nazimabad Shishkat, Gilgit-Baltistan region, Pakistan
- Parent range
- Hispar Muztagh , Karakoram
- First ascent
- 9 June 1960 by Günther Stärker and Diether Marchart of an Austrian team
- Easiest route
- Glacier/snow/ice climb
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Encyclopedic overview
Disteghil Sar or Distaghil Sar is the highest mountain in the Baltin Bar Nallah Shishkat, Hunza. It is part of the Karakoram mountain range in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It is the 19th-highest mountain on Earth, the 7th-highest in Pakistan, and the first of the high peaks after Shishapangma to be the tallest independent summit of its own subrange. The mountain has a 3-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) top ridge above 7,400 meters elevation, with three distinct summits: Northwest, 7,885 m; Central, 7,760 m; and Southeast, 7,696m or 7,535m.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Distaghil Sar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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