The Trango Towers are a family of granite rock towers in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, situated north of the Baltoro Glacier as part of the Baltoro Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram. Their sheer granite faces rank among the largest cliffs on Earth and draw climbers for some of the most challenging big-wall climbing anywhere, and the highest point in the group, Great Trango Tower, reaches about 6,286 meters, its east face carrying the world's greatest nearly vertical rock drop. This entity documents the Trango Towers specifically as a geological formation, a cluster of granite monoliths whose Great Trango Tower face is the tallest near-vertical rock drop known.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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