Nanga Parbat climb. Numerous mountaineering deaths in the mid and early-20th century lent it the nickname "Killer Mountain.” Nanga Parbat forms the western anchor of the Himalayan Range and is the westernmost eight-thousander. It lies just south of the Indus River in the Diamer District of Gilgit–Baltistan in Pakistan. Not far to the north is the western end of the Karakoram range. Nanga Parbat has tremendous vertical relief over local terrain in all directions. To the south, Nanga Parbat has what is often referred to as the highest mountain face in the world: the Rupal Face rises above its base. To the
2013 Nanga Parbat massacre up four different cases to give an impression that all the perpetrators have been arrested but the real perpetrators are still at large", he said. On February 27, 2015, four inmates made an attempt to escape the Gilgit district jail. Of the two who managed to flee, one was alleged to have been involved in the Nanga Parbat tourist shooting incident. Security agencies started an operation to capture the escapees but the escaped inmates had not been captured. A reward of Rs. 2 million was also announced by the Gilgit Baltistan Home Secretary, Sibtain Ahmed, for people who helped the