Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain in the world at 8,126 meters (26,660 ft) above sea level.

It is the western anchor of the Himalayas around which the Indus river skirts into the plains of Pakistan.

It is in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan and is locally known as Diamir or Deo Mir (deo meaning "huge" or “giant” and mir meaning "mountain").

Nanga Parbat is one of the eight-thousanders, with a summit elevation of 8,126 metres (26,660 ft).

An immense, dramatic peak rising far above its surrounding terrain, Nanga Parbat is also a notoriously difficult climb.

Numerous mountaineering deaths in the mid and early-20th century lent it the nickname "killer mountain".

Nanga Parbat has tremendous vertical relief over local terrain in all directions.

Nanga Parbat is one of only two peaks on earth that rank in the top twenty of both the highest mountains in the world, and the most prominent peaks in the world, ranking ninth and fourteenth respectively.

The other is Mount Everest, which is first on both lists. It is also the second most prominent peak of the Himalayas, after Mount Everest.

Nanga Parbat along with Namcha Barwa on the Tibetan Plateau mark the west and east ends of the Himalayas.