Gasherbrum (Urdu: گاشر برم) is a remote group of peaks situated at the northeastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range.
[dubious – discuss] The peaks are located within the border region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China.
[2] The Gasherbrum range forms the continental divide of southern Asia; drainage to the north and east flows into the Tarim Basin, drainage to the south and west flows into the Arabian Sea.
In 1856, Thomas George Montgomerie, a British Royal Engineers lieutenant and a member of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, sighted a group of high peaks in the Karakoram from more than 200 km away.
Broad Peak was thought to miss out on a K-number as it was hidden from Montgomerie's view by Masherbrum.