Savage Mountain

English Etymology en George Irving Bell American mountaineer 1953 1 as a reference to the mountain's extreme danger and difficulty; first given as "It's a savage mountain that tries to kill you."6 September 2018 Stone Larry The Seattle Times Summiting 'Savage Mountain': The harrowing story of these Washington climbers' K2 ascent https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/god-were-going-to-get-the-mountain-40-years-later-k2-ascent-that-included-seattles-jim-wickwire-remains-magical/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180911125208/https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/god-were-going-to-get-the-mountain-40-years-later-k2-ascent-that-included-seattles-jim-wickwire-remains-magical/ Proper noun Savage Mountain ~ en poetic en @nickname for:K2 mountain c/Pakistan c/China K2 the world's second-highest mountain. en 2010 Jennifer Jordan The Godwin–Austen Glacier, K2, July 2002 The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 https://archive.org/details/lastmanonmountai00jenn/ New York; London w:W. W. Norton & Company 978-0-393-07778-0 2010014201 449865709 16 https://archive.org/details/lastmanonmountai00jenn/page/n19/ A few years earlier, I had learned that only five women had reached the summit of K2, and all of them were dead. Three perished on their descent, and the two that had managed to make it off the so-called Savage Mountain alive had died soon after while attempting other 8,000-meter peaks, a legendary distinction which separates the fourteen Himalayan giants which stand above the mark from the countless peaks which sit below it. References