MUZTAGH TOWER (7,273 M) EXPEDITION

Range: Karakoram
Altitude: 5,885m
Zone: Open
Duration: 45 Days
Best Time: May - September.

Muztagh Tower is also known as Mustagh Tower; Muztagh: ice tower. It is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh, part of the Karakoram range between the two neighboring countries (Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uygur region China). Muztagh Tower stands between the basins of the Baltoro and Sarpo Laggo glaciers.

The Mustagh Tower was made famous by a spectacular but somewhat misleading photograph taken by Vittorio Sella during the 1909 Italian expedition to K2. Taken from the upper Baltoro, due southeast of the mountain, the twin summits were perfectly aligned, and the mountain was seen as a slender tooth and looked impregnable. In 1941, the photograph was featured in a popular book on mountaineering with the caption "The Last Citadel."