Peak K2

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The great altitude of peak K2 was first discovered in 1858 by trigonometrical  observations.''It was across the plains of Deosai," wrote Colonel Montgomerie, " from "Haramukh that I took the first observation to peak K2 at a distance of 137 miles."  

K2
8,611 m (28,251 ft) 
Ranked 2nd (1st in Pakistan)



K2 is described by Colonel Godwin-Austen as follows: "K2 is a conical mass with "sides too steep to allow the snow to rest on them long: it lies therefore only in large "patches and stripes on the fissured surface."   Sir Martin Conway writes that K2 has a double summit, which he has seen on several occasions. Colonel Godwin-Austen, however, believes it to be singlepeaked.*

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