Nature · Main northeast summit · distinct from southwest summit
Masherbrum: terrain elevation and local relief
Masherbrum uses an approximately 7,785-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,362 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 7,785 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Main northeast summit · distinct from southwest summit
- In feet, rounded
- 25,540.1 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 7784.6 m at 35.643056°, 76.307500°.
- Local base
- 4422.3 m at 35.611111°, 76.369167°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 76.249861°, east 76.371250°; south 35.610972°, north 35.674028°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 25.2 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Emlyn Thomas’s 1982 American Alpine Journal account distinguishes Masherbrum’s 7,821-meter northeast summit from its 7,806-meter southwest summit. The selected section centers the main northeast summit area, reaching approximately 7,785 meters in the Copernicus EGM2008 surface. A single name does not make the two summit references interchangeable. The dataset’s broad samples cannot resolve the exact rock-and-snow endpoint of an expedition measurement.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 4422.3 meters at 35.611111° latitude, 76.369167° longitude. This produces about 3,362 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Masherbrum uses an approximately 7,785-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,362 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Emlyn Thomas, American Alpine Journal 1982: Masherbrum summit distinction
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
Masherbrum’s main northeast summit is the selected reference. Its 7,821-meter listing stays separate from the southwest summit and the approximately 7,785-meter raster maximum.
Source review recorded . Maintained by Ishan Karunaratne. Suggest a correction with a source and the exact measurement being compared.