Nanga Parbat is still growing

Nanga Parbat grows 7mm yearly.

Nanga Parbat is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth.

The mountain lies in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, near the Indus River.

Nanga Parbat anchors the western end of the Himalayan range.

The Rupal Face rises 4,600 meters above its base to the south.

To the north, the Rakhiot Flank ascends 7,000 meters in 25 kilometers.

Nanga Parbat is famous as the Killer Mountain for climbing difficulty.

The name means Naked Mountain for its usually snowless south face.

The 1932 German expedition was the first major climbing attempt here.

Hermann Buhl made the first summit solo in 1953 without oxygen.

The Kinshofer route on the Diamir Face became the standard climb.

In 2005, a high-altitude helicopter rescue saved a stranded climber.

Nanga Parbat grows taller each year by seven millimeters.