Mountain of Destiny: Nanga Parbat and Its Path Into the German Imagination

by Harald Heobusch

A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German "mountain of the mind."

Never has a mountain occupied the German imagination longer and more thoroughly than Nanga Parbat (8,125m), the world's ninth-highest peak, located in the extreme western part of the Himalaya chain in present-day Pakistan. Repeatedly referred to in the 1930s as the German "mountain of destiny," over a period of roughly two decades from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139583
• ISBN13: 9781571139580
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"