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Granite spires in mountains in Pakistan
The Trango Towers (Urdu: ٹرینگو ٹاورز) are a family of rock towers situated in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, in northern Pakistan. The Towers have some
Trango_Towers
Topics referred to by the same term
Company agency in Houston, US Trango Towers, a rock formation in Pakistan Trango Glacier, in Pakistan UP Trango, a German paraglider design This disambiguation
Trango
Glacier in Pakistan
from north to south on the west side of the Trango Towers and joins the Baltoro Glacier. The Great Trango Tower, declared a record holder for the "greatest
Trango_Glacier
German rock climber (1960-1992)
ascents of important new big wall climbing routes on the Trango Towers and the Paine Towers. With long-time climbing partner Kurt Albert, he revolutionized
Wolfgang_Güllich
Slovenian mountain climber
2006. Trango Towers (Karakorum) – Normal route on Great Trango Tower (6286 m / 20 623 ft) 2006. Trango Towers (Karakorum) – Chota Badla (Trango Monk,
Aleš_Česen
Type of rock climbing
g. Riders on the Storm on Cordillera Paine, or the Grand Voyage on Trango Towers). Extreme C5-graded aid-only routes are also still being established
Aid_climbing
Tall, near vertical rock face
face, Karakoram, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 2,000 m Trango Towers: East Face Great Trango Tower, Baltoro Muztagh, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 1,340 m
Cliff
City in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir
K2, the Gasherbrums, Broad Peak, and the Trango Towers, and to the huge glaciers of Baltoro, Biafo and Trango. This makes Skardu the main tourist and mountaineering
Skardu
American mountain climber and inventor (1959–2024)
Dome, and in 1992 he climbed the largest rock wall in the world, Great Trango Tower. Also in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he pioneered numerous difficult
John_Middendorf
American mountain and rock climber
Freerider 5.12d (7c), on El Capitan. First ascent of the SW Cat Ear Spire, Trango Towers, in the Himalaya First ascent of The Beholder V, 5.12 (7b/+) on the
Renan_Öztürk
National Park in Pakistan
climbing. One celebrated climbing area is Trango Towers, a group of some of the world tallest rock towers, situated in the park close to the route used
Central Karakoram National Park
Central_Karakoram_National_Park
Norwegian climber
during an expedition with Stein P. Aasheim and Dag Kolsrud on Great Trango Tower (6286 m) in Karakoram, Pakistan. A few hundred meters below the summit
Hans_Christian_Doseth
Type of rock climbing
big wall free soloing attracted global attention. Trango Towers, Karakoram. The Great Trango Tower's east face and east buttress form the world's longest
Big_wall_climbing
Mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China
Pakistan Gamba Gangri 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) (approx) K9 Pakistan near Trango Towers Gomgma Gangri 6,934 metres (22,749 ft) K7 Pakistan at the head of the
Karakoram
Glacier in Pakistan
Muztagh Tower, 7,273 m. Snow Dome, 7,160 m. Trango Towers, 6,286 m. (Their vertical faces are the world's tallest cliffs.) Uli Biaho Tower, 6,417 m.
Baltoro_Glacier
Australian physician and BASE jumper
film BASEclimb, about a world record setting BASE jump from The Great Trango Towers in Pakistan, won 21 International awards. He led the BASEClimb High
Glenn_Singleman
Individual column of rock
National Park Pyramidal peak Stack (geology) Totem pole (Monument Valley) Trango Towers Základy geomorfologie: vybrané tvary reliéfů. Univerzita Palackého.
Pinnacle_(geology)
Mountain, rises 2,408 m directly from the Pacific Ocean. Trango Towers: East Face Great Trango Tower, Baltoro Muztagh, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 1,340 m
List_of_cliffs_by_continent
Ghamubar Glacier Uli Biaho 6417 Karakoram _ Youno Shigar Koser Gunge 6401 Trango Towers 6363 Baltoro Muztagh Sarwali Peak 6326 Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Rupal
List_of_mountains_in_Pakistan
Type of igneous rock
Jorasses), the Bregaglia, Corsica, parts of the Karakoram (especially the Trango Towers), the Fitzroy Massif and the Paine Massif in Patagonia, Baffin Island
Granite
Mountain in Pakistan
Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan, near Trango Towers and Baltoro Glacier. It consists of two main peaks: Uli Biaho Tower (measuring approximately 19,957 feet
Uli_Biaho
Mountain in Nunavut, Canada
Thor on the rim of Akshayuk Pass, showing the U-shaped glacial valley Trango Towers – the tallest near-vertical drop on Earth Cerro Torre Half Dome "Thor
Mount_Thor
Human settlement
Baintha Brakk, 'The Ogre', 7,285 m. Muztagh Tower, 7,273 m. Snow Dome, 7,160 m. Biarchedi, 6,781m Trango Towers, 6,363 m, the highest cliffs in the world
Askole
Norwegian Arctic adventurer and mountaineer (1975–2008)
Stein-Ivar Gravdal, Bjarte Bø and Sigurd Felde reached the top of Great Trango Tower (6286 m) in Karakoram, Pakistan, via the "Norwegian Buttress" (VII 5
Rolf_Bae
American rock climber (born 1973)
Davis was inspired to go to the Karakoram by photographs she saw of the Trango Towers and Shipton Spire. Davis began her mountain climbing career in 1998
Steph_Davis
Activity of jumping from fixed objects using a parachute
made a BASE jump from an altitude of 6,286 metres (20,623 ft) off the Trango Towers in Pakistan. It was the highest BASE jump off the earth at the time
BASE_jumping
675 m (5,495 ft)) Greatest nearly vertical drop 1,340 m (4,396 ft) Trango Towers, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan (summit elevation 6,286 m (20,623 ft)) Greatest
Extremes_on_Earth
Region administered by Pakistan
The Trango Towers feature the greatest nearly vertical drop in the world.
Gilgit-Baltistan
Swiss mountaineer (1959–2011)
he completed a new route with Voytek Kurtyka on the Nameless Tower (6239m), Trango Towers, Pakistan. He continued to climb in the Alps, completing 13 peaks
Erhard_Loretan
American retail company
the summer of 1977, Galen Rowell organized a 6-man expedition to Great Trango Tower, a 20,623-foot unclimbed granite spire in Pakistan. Expedition member
Eddie_Bauer
Glacier in Pakistan
Hainablak Glacier is a glacier near Trango Tower mountain in Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Trango Glacier Trango Towers List of mountains in Pakistan
Hainablak_Glacier
Mountaineers, rock climbers, and ice climbers
Christian Doseth (1958–1984) Norway, first ascent of the East Face of Great Trango Tower (1984), died during the descent Lord Francis Douglas (1847–1865) Scotland
List of climbers and mountaineers
List_of_climbers_and_mountaineers
Polish mountaineer and rock climber, born 1947
Reinhold Messner (1982, Cho Oyu winter attempt), Noboru Yamada (1986 Trango Towers attempt), Yasushi Yamanoi (2000, 2001, K2 and Latok attempts). The ideas
Wojciech_Kurtyka
Austrian rock climber (born 1988)
2022, the pair ventured into high-altitude big-wall climbing on the Trango Towers, when they made only the third free ascent, and Zangerl the FFFA, of
Babsi_Zangerl
American mountain climber and author (born 1948)
called "Nanda Devi; the Tragic Expedition". 1977 First Ascent of Great Trango Tower with Galen Rowell, Dennis Hennek, Kim Schmitz and Jim Morrissey. 1978
John_Roskelley
American mountaineer (1958-1999)
Teton, Wyoming, 1991 Peak 4810, Ak-Su region, Kyrgyzstan, 1995 Great Trango Tower, Pakistan, 1999, NW face, new route Other climbs Matterhorn (Alps, Switzerland)
Alex_Lowe_(mountaineer)
Japanese mountaineer (1950–1989)
(8163 m) normal route without oxygen 1986: Polish-Japanese Trango Expedition to Trango Towers (unsuccessful) 1987 Winter: December 20th, summit of the south
Noboru_Yamada
Mountaineering and climbing term
eight-thousanders, and Everest in particular. By the 1980s, the rock spires of Trango Towers in the Karakoram, and Torres del Paine in Patagonia also had first ascents
First_ascent
Slovenian mountaineer, born 1960
2024-08-06. Grmovsek, Tanja (2007-03-01). "Trango Tower". Alpinist. Retrieved 2024-08-06. "Slovenian TranGO Towers 2006". PlanetMountain.com. Retrieved 2024-08-06
Silvo_Karo
Mountain in Pakistan
of the Baltoro Glacier and nine kilometres (5.6 mi) southwest of the Trango Towers in Central Karakoram National Park. Precipitation runoff from this mountain's
Paiju_Peak
Italian mountaineer (1970-2008)
Yasinskaya (Ukraine) for their new opening of the northwest wall route Great Trango Tower (Pakistan). The 3rd edition prize was given on July 23, 2014 to the brothers
Karl_Unterkircher
French rock climber and mountaineer
December 2022. Breashers, David (1991). "Asia, Pakistan, Nameless Tower, Trango Towers". American Alpine Journal. 33 (65). American Alpine Club: 270–272
Catherine_Destivelle
German biathlete (1993–2025)
mountain rescue team. After having conquered successfully the Great Trango Tower (6,286 m) on 8 July, Dahlmeier died on 28 July 2025 in a rockfall accident
Laura_Dahlmeier
Type of sport
high-altitude, such as on big wall routes like Eternal Flame on the Trango Towers, present additional physical challenges. Traversing routes, by their
Rock_climbing
Section of a climbing route
Grande Voyage (1,340 metres, VII 5.10 A4+ WI3), which is on the Great Trango Tower in the Himalayas. The Mountaineers (2018). Mountaineering: The Freedom
Traverse_(climbing)
Glacier in Xinjiang, China
Pakistani side of the Karakorams via the Old Muztagh Pass northeast of the Trango Towers. It is, however, easier to approach from the Chinese side, starting
Sarpo_Laggo_Glacier
American rock climber
Management for Rock Climbing (2012) Lander Rock Climbs (2015) Cirque of the Towers (2008) American Alpine Club Journal "Half Dome Free Climbed" Skinner, Todd
Steve_Bechtel
American wilderness photographer, mountaineer, and author (1940–2002)
of Denali First one-day ascent of Kilimanjaro First ascent of Great Trango Tower in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya Second ascent of the Amne Machin peak
Galen_Rowell
Austrian rock climber and mountaineer (1990–2019)
(Pakistan): Lama and Ortner repeated the route Eternal Flame on Trango Tower (also known as Nameless Tower; 6239m). 2012 Chogolisa (7668m) on the Baltoro glacier
David_Lama
French rock climber
ascent Bonington - Torres del Paine (PAT - January 2007 Eternal Flame - Trango Towers (PAK) - July 20–22, 2005 List of grade milestones in rock climbing History
François_Petit_(climber)
Mountain range in Pakistan/China
towers, and are famous for their aesthetic, difficult climbing. These include: Great Trango, 6,286 m Trango (Nameless) Tower, 6,239 m Uli Biaho Tower
Baltoro_Muztagh
Deployable platform in big wall climbing
including during the first ascent of The Grand Voyage on the Great Trango Tower in 1992, the longest vertical big wall (1350m) in the world. The A5 Portaledge
Portaledge
American photographer (born 1959)
“Storming the Tower” May 1996, a cover story that documents the free ascent of the East face of the Nameless Tower in the Trango Towers, Pakistan. He
Bill_Hatcher
British rock climber and mountaineer
East Face of Central Tower Of Paine in Patagonia, the first ascent of the West Face of Mount Asgard on Baffin Island, Trango Tower and multiple attempts
Paul_Pritchard
German rock climber
wall climbing locations including the high-altitude walls of Trango Tower, the stormy towers of Patagonia, and the extreme-cold of Ulvetanna in Antarctica;
Alexander_Huber
For mountain peaks only
Seyfferth, Batura I exploration and first ascents Greg Child (2005), Trango Tower, Alpinist, Vol 11 Hideo, Masawa. "Asparas" (PDF). American Alpine Journal
List of first ascents of mountain summits
List_of_first_ascents_of_mountain_summits
Bouldering, single pitch and multi-pitch / big wall
Xaver Bongard [de] do the FA of the 4,400 ft The Grand Voyage, on Great Trango Tower in Pakistan, hardest big wall aid climb at 5.10+, A4+ (and high altitude);
History_of_rock_climbing
South African rock climber
Schwankhart, with Peter Lazarus, James Pitman and Andreas Kiefer, ascended Trango Tower in Pakistan. In 2007, she joined Pierre Carter, as project photographer
Marianne_Schwankhart
British mountaineer and author
Baintha Brakk north face 1994 Gasherbrum IV, south ridge 1995 Trango Towers Hispar La Towers Shishapangma Konga Shan massif 1997 Changabang 2000 Mount Kennedy
Andy_Cave
British mountain climber
number of Himalayan expeditions. In 1976, he made the first ascent of Trango Tower with Joe Brown. Two years later, on an expedition to The Ogre, he and
Mo_Anthoine
Australian mountain climber
Traveler's Club, 21 May 2013 1992 Run for Cover, (VII 5.11 A3, 1000m), Trango Tower, Karakoram, Pakistan. FA with Mark Wilford. 1994 Belligerence, (VI 5
Greg_Child
Geographic. Vol. 189, no. 3. p. 52. Mairson, Alan (April 1996). "Storming the Tower". National Geographic. Vol. 189, no. 4. p. 32. Currie, Philip J. (May 1996)
List of National Geographic cover stories (1990s)
List_of_National_Geographic_cover_stories_(1990s)
Pakistani climber (Died 2015)
Parbat (5,290 m (17,360 ft)), and a new route on little Trango (5,455 m (17,897 ft)) in the Trango group. In 2015, Junaidi, along with two other teammates
Imran_Junaidi
American mountain climber (1950-2018)
Colorado 1989 Tawoche, Northeast Face, with John Roskelley 1990 Trango (Nameless) Tower, Yugoslav route with Catherine Destivelle 1991 Metanoia, a new
Jeff_Lowe
French explorer (born 1979)
of the island), Pakistan (First free climbing west pillar of Nameless Trango Tower 6253 m), Alaska (First ski descents in the mountain of Denali and Sea
Evrard_Wendenbaum
American rock climber and alpinist (born 1959)
Rockies, Canada. Solo ascent. 1992 Run for Cover, (VII 5.11 A3, 1000m), Trango Tower, Karakorum, Pakistan. FA with Greg Child. 1999 Pugilist at Rest, (VI
Mark_Wilford
British alpinist and skier (born 1987)
and Iker and Eneko Pou in establishing six new climbing routes on Little Trango in Pakistan. One of the routes, Dommage pas de Fromage, was named in memory
Fay_Manners
Sports Federation. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2024. "Fallece Jonathan Trango en un accidente de BASE en el Mont Blanc". Desnivel.com (in Spanish). 22
List of fatalities due to wingsuit flying
List_of_fatalities_due_to_wingsuit_flying
German climber and mountaineer (born 1966)
First free ascent with Alexander of Eternal Flame, (5.13a), on Trango ("Nameless") Tower (6,239 m), Pakistan. Alexander Huber and Thomas Huber: The Wall
Thomas_Huber
City in Arizona, United States
He was previously a council member from 2020. The vice mayor is Michelle Trango. The city council consists of the mayor, who serves a two-year term, and
Eloy,_Arizona
Region of Pakistani-administered Kashmir
valleys. Glaciers include Baltoro Glacier, Biafo Glacier, Siachen Glacier, Trango Glacier and Godwin-Austen Glacier. Baltistan is home to more than 20 peaks
Baltistan
a bicycle). Big Bro A hollow telescopic tubular device manufactured by Trango for use as protection in off-width crack climbing. big wall climbing A long
Glossary_of_climbing_terms
Batura Glacier Chumik Glacier Godwin-Austen Glacier Kutiah Lungma Glacier Trango Glacier Malam Jabba ski resort Naltar ski resort Nathia Gali Shimshal Rattu
Tourism_in_Pakistan
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