Gasherbrum IV 7925 m

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Gasherbrum IV is the 17th highest mountain on Earth and the 6th highest in Pakistan. It is one of the peaks in the Gasherbrum massif.
The Gasherbrum is a remote group of peaks at the northeastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. The massif contains three of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks (if one includes Broad Peak). Gasherbrum is often claimed to mean “Shining Wall, presumably a reference to the obvious west face of Gasherbrum IV, but it comes from “Agatha” (beautiful) and “Brum” (mountain) in Balti, which means “beautiful mountain
958 First ascent by Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri by the Northeast Ridge on an Italian expedition led by Riccardo Cassin.
1985: The first ascent of the 10,000 ft (3,000 m) high west face was by Robert Schauer (Austria) and Wojciech Kurtyka (Poland). However, bad weather and extreme exhaustion forced them to stop at the north summit, missing the meeting.
1986 First ascent of the Northwest Ridge by Greg Child, Tim Macartney-Snape, and Tom Hargis. This was the second ascent of Gasherbrum IV.
1997: The first ascent of the Central Spur of the West was faced by a Korean team (a different line). Bang Jung-ho, Kim Tong-Kwan, and YooHuk-jae reached the summit after a sieged ascent, which was quoted as 5.10 A3.
1999 Second ascent of the Northwest Ridge by Kang Yeon-ryong and Yun Chi-won, part of a 13-member Korean team.
2008 Third ascent of the Northwest Ridge by a Spanish team composed of Alberto Iñurrategi, Juan Vallejo, José Carlos Tamayo, Mikel Zabalza, and Ferran Latorre. The team did not get to the main summit but stopped at a minor peak a short distance from the meeting.

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