K2

Meaning

1. Initialism of kinder two.
2. A mountain on the border between Pakistan and Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, the world’s second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Karakorams.

Etymology / origin

Designated by Thomas Montgomerie in 1856 during the Great Trigonometrical Survey of British India, for being the second of the two most prominent peaks in the Karakoram range visible to him from Mount Harmukh.

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