Gasherbrum III

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Gasherbrum III (Template:Langx); Template:Zh), surveyed as K3a, is a summit in the Gasherbrum massif of the Baltoro Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram on the border between Xinjiang, China and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.[1] It is situated between Gasherbrum II and IV.

Gasherbrum III fails to meet a Template:Convert topographic prominence cutoff to be an independent mountain; hence it can be considered a subpeak of Gasherbrum II.[2]

Gasherbrum III was one of the highest unclimbed summits in the world[3] up to its first ascent in 1975, by Wanda Rutkiewicz, Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz, Janusz Onyszkiewicz and Krzysztof Zdzitowiecki, members of a Polish expedition.[4]

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  2. Some sources use a lower cutoff value, and consider Gasherbrum III to be independent.
  3. In fact no summit in 1975 was both higher and more topographically prominent.
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