Elevation 7,742 metres (25,400 feet)
Ranked 31st
Location Kashmir (Disputed Pakistan/India). Currently under Indian control (status since 1984)
Range Saltoro Mountains, Karakoram
Prominence 2,160 m
Coordinates 35°24'01?N, 76°50'55?E
First ascent 1962 by Y. Takamura, A. Saito, Capt. Bashir
Easiest route rock/snow/ice climb
Saltoro Kangri is the highest peak of the Saltoro Mountains, better known as the Saltoro Range, which is a subrange of the Karakoram. It is one of the highest mountains on Earth, but it is in a very remote location deep in the Karakoram.

Location
Saltoro Kangri lies in the disputed region claimed by both Pakistan and India, on the Southern flank of the Siachen Glacier.

Notable Features
Saltoro Kangri is the 31st highest independent mountain in the world. In addition, it rises dramatically above the valleys to the west of the peak (draining eventually into the Indus River). Due to danger from military operations, Saltoro Kangri is little visited.

Climbing History
The mountain was reconnoitered by the intrepid Workman couple in 1911-12.

The first attempt on the peak was in 1935 by a British expedition led by J. Waller, which reached c.24500' on the SE ridge.

A British university expedition led by Eric Shipton approached this peak through the Bilafond La via Pakistan with a Pakistani climbing permit. They recced the peak but did not attempt it. This expedition was inadvertently the first move in the deadly game of Siachen oropolitics that would lead to the Siachen War of 1984.

The first ascent of Saltoro Kangri was in 1962, by a joint Japanese-Pakistani expedition led by T. Shidei. This piggyback expedition put A. Saito, Y. Takamura and Pakistani climber R.A. Bashir on top on July 24, following the S.E. ridge route.

An unexpected result of these two expeditions in a No man's land area could have been the cartographic aggression by the US, whose maps from the '60s began to show the Line of Control between Pakistani and Indian territory as running from the last defined point in the 1949 Agreement, NJ9842, to the Karakoram Pass (held by India), thus awarding the entire Siachen Glacier to Pakistan.

The Himalayan Index lists only one more ascent of the mountain, in 1981, and no other attempts.