Nanga Parbat the mountain. "Nanga Parbat" is a movie by Joseph Vilsmaier about the 1970 expedition of brothers Günther Messner and Reinhold Messner. Donald Shebib's 1986 film "The Climb" covers the story of Hermann Buhl making the first ascent. Nanga Parbat Nanga Parbat (Urdu: ), locally known as Diamer (), is the ninth highest mountain in the world at above sea level. Located in the Diamer District of Pakistan’s Gilgit Baltistan region, Nanga Parbat is the western anchor of the Himalayas. The name Nanga Parbat is derived from the Sanskrit words "nagna" and "parvata" which together mean "Naked Mountain". The mountain is
River anticlines most are located in 2 main regions of the Himalaya, the Nanga Parbat–Haramosh Massif and Namche Barwa–Gyala Peri which occur on the Eastern and Western edges respectively. The Indus River is the mechanism responsible for crustal removal in the Nanga Parbat region, and the Tsangpo River is active in the Namche Barwa region. Proposed tectonic aneurysms are located in the Saint Elias region of Alaska, the Kongur Shan and Muztagh Ata in China, and the Lepontine Dome in the Swiss Alps. These locations show incipient or similar, less significant characteristics to actively observed systems. Glacial mechanisms of erosion and transport