Citations:K2

English citations of K2

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Thomas George Montgomerie's original sketch from 1856 in which he applied the notation K2

Map including K2 (MOUNT GODWIN AUSTEN) (AMS, 1953)

• [1912, Filippo De Filippi, Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909‎^[1], New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, 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.]

• 1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary‎^[2], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 345:

  The uplifted western rim of the plateau concealed all the world except a few ice-peaks that lifted above it. One of them was K2, the highest peak in the world bar Mount Everest, but from the Depsang Plains, which are sixteen or seventeen thousand feet, K2 and its companions looked strangely truncated.

• 2001, Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page v:

  What is there on the summit of K2, that would entice a climber to risk everything?

• 2010, Graham Bowley, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2‎^[4], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xx:

  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.

• 2021 July 27, Umar Farooq, “Pakistani, 19, becomes youngest person to summit K2”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 27 July 2021‎^[6]:

  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.

• 2022 May 20, “'Not that amazing', says record-breaking Everest climber”, in France 24‎^[7], archived from the original on 20 May 2022‎^[8]:

  Last year, a team of Nepali climbers made the first winter ascent of the world's second-highest peak K2 -- the notoriously challenging 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) "savage mountain" of Pakistan.