The initial results obtained by an international research project named 'Monitoring of the horizontal movements of the
Nanga Parbat Haramosh Massif', funded by the Italian Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs through the Ev-K2-CNR
Committee, concerning the Karakoram – Himalaya mountain ranges in the north eastern part of Pakistan. The purpose
of the study is to determine the horizontal shift of the Nanga Parbat Massif and to compare it with the results obtained
from a permanent GNSS station located at the Ev-K2-CNR Pyramid laboratory near the Mount Everest Base Camp. The
determination of plates and arcs movements through surface GNSS systems could be a solid contribution to the structural
geologists to conirm or deny some theories on the tectonic movements of the Himalayan mountain ranges. The project
started in April 2009 and to obtain reliable quantitative results it should go on for at least 10 years. To arrive at the irst
measure, the project, in its starting phase, went into three different steps: (1) the choice of the measuring points; (2) the
monumenting of the benchmarks; and (3) the irst measure in November 2009.
At the present time a irst measure has been realized on solid monuments net; in the following years results will be available
for future researches.
