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I'm reading a book about the ascents and attempted ascents of this, the 'savage mountain'. really fascinating and inspiring stuff. did you know that aleister crowley was the 2nd in command of the first attempt to climb it? (that's been recorded) |
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I did not know that, Paul. um.. |
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You know, I'd like to climb ;) Wouldn't we all? |
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Interesting. |
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whats its other name then? |
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Mt. Godwen Austin |
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I had a guinnes book from 1997 that said that k2 was really higher than everest... is this true? |
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it doesn't have another name - there were various other names suggested, and lots of different little local names. In 1856, it was first recorded, along with another mountain (which was recorded as K1). After they discovered that K1 had a set local name (Masherbrum), they used that. The K stands for Karakoram, after the mountainrange it's found in. K2 just kept its name, and they decided not to change it. Fosco Maraini gave a good reason to keep the name K2: 'K2 may owe its origin to chance, but it is a name itself, and one of striking originality. Sybilline, magical, with a slight touch of fantasy. A short name but one that is pure and peremptory, so charged with evocation that it threatens to break through its bleak syballic bonds. And at the same time a name instinct with mystery and suggestion: a name that scraps race, religion, history and past. No country claims it, no latitudes and longtitudes and geography, no dictionary words. No, just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man - or of the cindered planet after the last.' K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, after Everest, the peak being 8611 metres high. (Everest is 8848m) It stands at the border between Pakistan (formerly a part of India), and China. |
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That name was rejected by the British Geographic Society. |
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I wouldn't know that for a fact (I don't think it is...but hey, what do I know?)...but is a hell of a lot more diffucult to climb. |
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Maybe so...but the geography books and a lot of local people still refer to it by that name...a vestige of the colonial past, if you will. |
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the highest mountain is off the coast of scotland but its underwater |
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yeah I know some maps and books still refer to it as Mt. Godwin-Austen, after H. H. Godwin-Austen, but K2 is its official name. dobbin - yeah, I know there are mountains underwater which are taller in metres - I thought it was one in Hawaii that was meant to be the 'tallest'. Everest is the 'highest' as it reaches the greatest height. |
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it is in hawaii indeed |
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I heard about this woman who was climbing K2, this was in 95. She was found hanging from a rope dead and they couldn't reach her - so they had to leave her -- I wonder if the rope has snapped yet - pretty morale-sapping to be jollying up K2 and look round and see some dead ho hanging from a rope huh? it'd make a good photograph tho. |
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no it is the highest, the sea level is higher in scotland due to lower air pressure because of cloud cover |
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lol many times lol |
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why this sudden abundance of lol..? |
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I'm reading an excellent book right now - it's the expedition book of the tragic 1953 US attempt at the summit, in which Art Gilkey died - very good so far! |
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i read an excellent book about MALLORY......the FIRST dood to climb EVEREST......or so they say......he just didn't come back down, so Hillary was given the kudo's i would love to go to BASE camp MT EVEREST....it's a DREAM of mine!!! |
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I dont think I'd like to go to everest as I've heard it's now dirty and touristy -- K2, on the other hand, I would LOVE to go to! |
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hahahha you don't think K2 has it's share of trash.......tis a sad reality, but i think the majesty of the mountain in REAL life would allow me to look past the trash for a moment and just *cough gasp...cough.....gasp....TRY to breathe =0)* |
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No, K2 is not trashed up, because only REAL adventurers and climbers can even GET there... just reaching K2 is a long and arduous and tricy busines! Sorry for taking so long to reply, I was in the bath. |
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wow almost a year later! :D |
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K3! afrika tot in amerika uhm |
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I climbed olympus mons |
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What can I say, it was a nice bath :D |
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