Rakhiot Peak Rakhiot Peak Rakhiot Peak is a peak in the Himalayas range of the Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. It is one of the many subsidiary summits of the Nanga Parbat massif. It lies just south of the Indus River in the Diamer District. Not far to the north is the western end of the Karakoram range. "From the article: Nanga Parbat" The core of Nanga Parbat is a long ridge trending southwest-northeast. The southwestern portion of this main ridge is known as the Mazeno Ridge, and has a number of subsidiary peaks. In the other direction from the summit, the main ridge starts
Nanga Parbat narrator compares his now deceased compatriot, Lessingham, to Nanga Parbat in a descriptive passage: Jonathan Neale wrote a book about the 1934 climbing season on Nanga Parbat called "Tigers of the Snow". He interviewed many old Sherpas, including Ang Tsering, the last man off Nanga Parbat alive in 1934. The book attempts to narrate what went wrong on the expedition, set against mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys. Nanda Parbat, a fictional city in the DC Universe, is named after