K2 [Mountain] - K2

Japanese: K₂[山] - ケーツー
K2 [Mountain] - K2
The highest peak in the Karakoram range. It is located on the China-Pakistan border in the Baltoro range in the central-eastern Karakoram. With an elevation of 8,611m, it is the second highest peak in the world after Mount Everest. Its name comes from the survey symbol K 2 , which stood for Karakoram No. 2, recorded in the Angle Book when it was surveyed by Colonel T. G. Montgomery and others of the Survey of India in 1856, but in China it is called Chogori (meaning "big mountain" in Baluchi). The first person to approach K 2 was H. H. Godwin Austin, who entered the Baltoro Glacier in 1861, and it is sometimes called Mount Godwin-Austen after him.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
カラコルム山脈の最高峰。中東部カラコルム,バルトロ山群の中国・パキスタン国境線上にある。標高8611mで,エベレストに次ぐ世界第2の高峰でもある。1856年インド測量局T.G.モントゴメリー大佐らの測量に際して,角度帳(アングルブック)に記されたカラコルム第2号を意味する測量記号K2をその名とするが,中国ではチョゴリ(バルーチ語で〈大きい山〉の意)の名を使っている。K2に最初に接近したのは61年にバルトロ氷河に入ったH.H.ゴドウィン・オースティンで,彼の名をとってゴドウィン・オーステン山と呼んだこともある。

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