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{{Short description|13th-highest mountain on Earth}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Gasherbrum II | other_name = {{nq|گاشر برم - ۲}}<br />K4 | photo = Gasherbrum2.jpg | photo_caption = Gasherbrum II from [[Base Camp]] | elevation_m = 8035 | elevation_ref = <ref name="General Info">{{Cite web|url=http://www.8000ers.com/cms/en/8000ers-mainmenu-205.html|title = General Info|website=8000ers.com}}</ref><ref name="peakbagger" /><ref name="cknp" /><ref name="peakware" /><br /><small>[[List of highest mountains|Ranked 13th]]</small> | prominence_m = 1524 | prominence_ref = <ref name="peakbagger"/> | map = Karakoram relief#Gilgit Baltistan#China Xinjiang Southern | map_caption = Location of Gasherbrum II | map_size = | map_image={{Karakoram OSM}} | label_position = right | listing = {{ubl|[[Eight-thousander]]|[[Ultra prominent peak|Ultra]]|[[List of mountains in China]]|[[List of mountains in Pakistan]]}} | location = [[Baltistan]], [[Gilgit–Baltistan]], Pakistan<br />[[Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County|Tashkurgan]], [[Xinjiang]], China, [[China–Pakistan border]] | range = [[Karakoram]] | coordinates = {{coord|35|45|30|N|76|39|12|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name="peaklist"/> | first_ascent = July 7, 1956, by [[Fritz Moravec]], Josef Larch and Hans Willenpart<ref name="peakbagger" /> | easiest_route = Snow/ice climb | mapframe = no | mapframe-wikidata = yes }} '''Gasherbrum II''' ({{Langx|bft|རྒ་ཥཱ་བྲུམ་། - ༢|lit=Beautiful Mountain 2|translit=rgasha brum 2}}; {{langx|ur|{{nq|گاشر برم - ۲}}}}; {{zh|s=加舒尔布鲁木II峰|t=加舒爾布魯木II峰|p=Jiāshūěrbùlǔmù II Fēng}}); [[Great Trigonometrical Survey|surveyed]] as '''K4''', is the [[List of highest mountains#List|13th highest mountain]] in the world at {{convert|8035|m|ft}} above sea level.<ref name="General Info"/><ref name="peakbagger"/><ref name="cknp" /><ref name="peakware"/><ref name="summitpostII">{{cite summitpost|id=153264|name=Gasherbrum II|accessdate=9 March 2013}}</ref> It is the third-highest peak of the [[Gasherbrum]] [[massif]], and is located in the [[Karakoram]], on the border between [[Gilgit–Baltistan]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Xinjiang]], [[China]].<ref name="peakware"/> The mountain was first climbed on July 7, 1956, by an [[Austria]]n expedition which included [[Fritz Moravec]], Josef Larch, and Hans Willenpart.
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