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Godwin-Austen

British  

noun

  1. another name for K2

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K2 sits 70 miles from the nearest village, at the end of a path that threads across the Baltoro and Godwin-Austen glaciers.

From New York Times

It’s named after Mount Godwin-Austen in Northern Kashmir, the second highest mountain in the world, for good reason.

From Los Angeles Times

Books in the research category cover topics such as the societal changes to traditional dialects in fishing communities in the north east of Scotland, and the life of 19th Century mountaineer Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, while history books examine topics such as religion in modern Scotland and Scottish urban history in art.

From BBC

Everest Dewanganj 29,002 8,000 Everest Sandakphu ” 12,000 K2 or Godwin-Austen Between Gilgit and Gor, 16,000 ft. 28,250   Pk.

From Project Gutenberg

Godwin-Austen indicates six of these geological axes as follows: 1.

From Project Gutenberg