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    Trango Towers (Urdu: ٹرینگو ٹاورز) are a family of rock towers situated in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, in the northern part of Pakistan. The Towers have...
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  • Trango may refer to: TranGO, a public transit agency in Washington, US Trango Towers, a rock formation in Pakistan Trango Glacier, in Pakistan UP Trango...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    during an expedition with Stein P. Aasheim and Dag Kolsrud on Great Trango Tower (6286 m) in Karakoram, Pakistan, during descent, after establishing the...
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    face, Karakoram, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 2,000 m Trango Towers: East Face Great Trango Tower, Baltoro Muztagh, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 1,340 m...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 2006. Trango Towers (Karakorum) – Normal route on Great Trango Tower (6286 m / 20 623 ft) 2006. Trango Towers (Karakorum) – Chota Badla (Trango Monk,...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • film BASEclimb, about a world record setting BASE jump from The Great Trango Towers in Pakistan, won 21 International awards. This year[clarify] he led...
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    National Park Pyramidal peak Stack (geology) Totem pole (Monument Valley) Trango Towers Základy geomorfologie: vybrané tvary reliéfů. Univerzita Palackého....
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    Pakistani side of the Karakorams via the Old Muztagh Pass northeast of the Trango Towers. It is, however, easier to approach the glacier from the Chinese side...
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  • 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...
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    Southwest Buttress was made in 2012 by Bill Borger and John Furneaux. Trango Towers – the tallest near-vertical drop on Earth Cerro Torre Half Dome "Thor...
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  • 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...
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    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....
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    eight-thousanders, and Everest in particular. By the 1980s, the rock spires of Trango Towers in the Karakorum, and Torres del Paine in Patagonia also had first ascents...
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    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...
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    list 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Jorasses), the Bregaglia, Corsica, parts of the Karakoram (especially the Trango Towers), the Fitzroy Massif, Patagonia, Baffin Island, Ogawayama, the Cornish...
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  • BASE jump from an altitude of 6,286 metres (20,623 ft) jump off Great Trango Towers Pakistan. It was the world's highest BASE jump off the earth at the...
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    “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...
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  • Hainablak Glacier is a glacier near Trango Tower mountain in Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Trango Glacier Trango Towers List of mountains in Pakistan...
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