Nanga Parbat, Pakistan

Naked Mountain, Huge Mountain, Killer Mountain - The Man Eater. The westernmost peak of the Himalayan range is ninth highest in the world, at 26,660 feet, (8,126 metres).

31 people died trying to climb it until it was conquered in 1953 by Austrian Hermann Buhl, alone for the last 1,300 metres after his colleagues turned-back.

Without oxygen; and after he had to spend a night standing, balanced on a ledge; he took 40 hours, and became the first person to summit a mountain over 8,000 metres high by himself.

It has had 68 victims, the third highest death rate in the world behind Annapurna and K2, (which equals it in terms of technical difficulty). And then the Taliban Terrorists killed 10 climbers and their cook at base camp in 2013.

For Pilots it is right of track as we start over the highest airway in the world, where the lowest safe altitude is 28,500 feet, just after we’ve passed Peshawar, headed for China. A quick glance, tick it off, and head for Mt Rakaposhi, and a last check of the emergency escape routes in the secondary flight plan. The next hour is serious business.