Nanga Parbat (film) age life where they are studying in a school. Reinhold goes to a hospital to meet Karl Herrligkoffer, who had been leading the earlier expeditions to the Nanga Parbat. There they both agree to take a German expedition to ascend the summit of Nanga parbat. They begin their expedition to Nanga Parbat leaving for Pakistan where they first reach Rawalpindi, a city in the north of Pakistan. There they have to convince the German Councillor for issuance of further fundings from German government. They then begin their journey first approaching to their base camp Rupal Flank in Gilgit Baltistan province.
Nanga Parbat faces Kanchenjunga was more difficult than Everest and neither expedition made much progress. K2 was known to be harder still, and its remoteness meant that even reaching its base would be a major undertaking. Nanga Parbat was therefore the highest mountain accessible to Germans and also deemed reasonably possible by climbers at the time. The first German expedition to Nanga Parbat was led by Willy Merkl in 1932. It is sometimes referred to as a German-American expedition, as the eight climbers included Rand Herron, an American, and Fritz Wiessner, who would become an American citizen the following year. While the