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Why was K2 so-called? Is Everest K1?

Question #37479. Asked by gmackematix.

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K is for Karakoram. The peaks of the Karakoram were surveyed by Thomas Montgomerie in the 1850s and numbered as K1, K2 etc.

Some say that they were numbered in order of height (K2 being erroneously supposed to be lower than Masherbrum): some say that the order was pretty well random. K1 was probably Masherbrum: it wouldn't have been Everest, which is not in the Karakoram.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum

Aug 14 2003, 1:16 AM
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