K2

K-2 English thumb|K2 Alternative forms en K-2 Etymology 1 Designated by Thomas Montgomerie in 1856 during the Great Trigonometrical Survey of British India, for being the second of the two most prominent peaks in the en Karakoram range visible to him from Harmukh Mount Harmukh. Pronunciation en /keɪˈtuː/ kā′to͞o′God·win-Aus·ten, Mount or K2 281 1 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-K2.wav Southern England en uː 2 Proper noun en mountain on the border between c/Pakistan and Tajik autonomous county/Taxkorgan prefecture/Kashgar Uyghur autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China the world’s second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Karakorams. en 1912 Filippo De Filippi Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909 https://archive.org/details/karakoramwestern00defiuoft/ New York w:E. P. Dutton and Company 977976590 22884138M 12 https://archive.org/details/karakoramwestern00defiuoft/page/12/ Here we have K², the highest mountain at present open to Europeans to attempt, only 750 feet lower than Mount Everest.² ² The designation of K² as the second highest mountain in the world must not be taken too literally. As a matter of fact, it is less than a hundred feet higher than Kinchinjunga, and the calculations cannot yet be made with such exactness as to eliminate all chances of error. There is still the possibility that Kinchinjunga may prove to be the higher of the two. on en October 11, 1954 Assault on the Summit: The Conquerors' Account Life (magazine) Life https://archive.org/details/Life-1954-10-11-Vol-37-No-15/ 37 15 0024-3019 1297123825 33 https://archive.org/details/Life-1954-10-11-Vol-37-No-15/page/33/ On the morning of July 31, the mountain rose spangled in the summer sun 2,300 feet above Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli. Strapping on three oxygen tanks, the two men faced toward K2's last fastness. en 2001 Heidi Howkins K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit https://archive.org/details/k2onewomansquest00howk/ Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society National Geographic 0-7922-7996-4 2001030265 440712295 v https://archive.org/details/k2onewomansquest00howk/page/n18/ What is there on the summit of K2, that would entice a climber to risk everything? en 2010 Graham Bowley No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 https://archive.org/details/nowaydownlifedea00bowl_0/ w:HarperCollins 978-0-06-183478-3 2010005706 731488256 xx https://archive.org/details/nowaydownlifedea00bowl_0/page/n23/ Meyer’s team was one of eight international expeditions that were setting off on the final day of their ascent of K2, at 28,251 feet the second-tallest mountain on earth. K2 was nearly 800 feet shorter than Everest, the world’s highest peak, but it was considered much more difficult, and more deadly. en 2020 Carla Perez Breathtaking: K2 - The World's Most Dangerous Mountain Eddie Bauer https://web.archive.org/web/20200522194140/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvFt2Xcuois YouTube, Eddie Bauer 42:40 I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard. en January 19, 2021 Adam Skolnick; Bhadra Sharma How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Time w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210119102345/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/sports/summit-k2-nepalese-sherpas.html 0362-4331 1645522 Sports Even a successful spring or summer climb of K2 is rare. Fewer than 400 climbers have been to its apex. More people have been to outer space than have stood its summit. en July 27, 2021 Umar Farooq Pakistani, 19, becomes youngest person to summit K2 https://web.archive.org/web/20210727085430/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistani-19-becomes-youngest-person-summit-k2-2021-07-27/ 27 July 2021 w:Reuters A 19-year-old Pakistani has become the youngest person to summit K2, the world's second highest mountain, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said on Tuesday. Shehroze Kashif reached the 8,611 metre (28,251 foot) summit at 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday. en August 01 2022 Emma Yeomans; Fiona Kingston Overcrowding on K2 as climbers queue to reach peak w:The Times https://web.archive.org/web/20240526021309/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/overcrowding-on-k2-as-climbers-queue-to-reach-peak-gmfft93l5 26 May 2024 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/overcrowding-on-k2-as-climbers-queue-to-reach-peak-gmfft93l5 0140-0460 181820531 UK News https://web.archive.org/web/20220801183309/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/overcrowding-on-k2-as-climbers-queue-to-reach-peak-gmfft93l5 Climbers have warned of overcrowding on K2 — the world’s second highest mountain and one of its deadliest — after a sherpa took video of queues snaking towards the summit. en Synonyms en Dapsang en Mount Godwin-Austen en Mount K2 en Qogir, en Chogori en the Savage Mountain Translations the world’s second highest mountain Arabic: ar جَبَل كَي ٢ jabal kay iṯnān Armenian: hy Չոգորի, hy K2 Azerbaijani: az Çoqori Balti: bft چھوغوری Belarusian: be гара Чагары Bengali: bn কে২ Bulgarian: bg К2 Burushaski: bsk Chinese: Cantonese: yue 喬戈里峰 Hokkien: nan-hbl K2 Hong Mandarin: cmn 喬戈里峰 Qiáogēlǐ Fēng; cmn K2 kēi-èr, kèi-èr Wu: wuu 乔戈里峰 Finnish: fi K2 French: fr K2 m Georgian: ka კ2 Hindi: hi के२, hi के-टू m Hungarian: hu K2 Japanese: ja K2 ケーツー, Kētsū Kannada: kn ಕೆ೨ Kazakh: kk К-2 Korean: ko K2 산 Keii-san Kyrgyz: ky Чогори Macedonian: mk К2 Maithili: mai के२ Marathi: mr के२ Nepali: ne के२ Persian: fa کی ۲ kay doh Polish: pl K2 m, pl Czogori f Portuguese: pt K2 m Punjabi: pa ਕੇ ਟੂ Western Punjabi: pnb کے ٹو Romansh: rm Lambha Pahar, rm K2 Russian: ru К2, ru Чогори Serbo-Croatian: sh К2 Tajik: tg К2 Tamil: ta கே-2 கொடுமுடி Telugu: te కే2 Thai: th ยอดเขาเคทู yôt kăo kây-too Turkish: tr K2 Dağı Ukrainian: uk K2, uk Чоґорі Urdu: ur کے ٹو kai-ṭū Uyghur: ug چوگىر چوققىسى Uzbek: uz Chogori References Further reading pn K2 or Mount Godwin Austen 891 1 Etymology 2 Noun ? en Philippines en kinder two. Chinese Pronunciation kēi-èr,kèi-èr pn Proper noun zh proper noun zh chiefly Taiwan en K2; 喬戈里峰 Polish pl: thumb|K2 Etymology pl :obor en:K2 + 1 Pronunciation 'ka'dwa K.2 Proper noun m-in 1 pl mountain range/Himalayas K2 pl Czogori Further reading pl exonyms pl Places in China Places in Pakistan Portuguese Etymology pt :bor en:K2 + 1 Pronunciation pt /ˈka ˈdojs/ BR Proper noun m pt mountain range/ Himalayas the world’s second highest mountain K2