MOUNTAINEERING FEAT
ASCENT IN THE HIMALAYAS BY AMERICANS LONDON, August 3. A “Times” copyright cablegram from Skardo, Kashmir, announces that the members of the American Alpine Club’s Karakoram Expedition reached the summit of the cone of the northeast ridge of K2, approximately at 26,000 feet. The climbers are safe. K2 was formerly known as Mount Godwin-Austen. Its utmost height has been accepted at 28,280 feet. K2 is the highest known summit in the world except Mount Everest. It was named Godwin-Austen in 1888 by the Royal Geographical Society in honour of the first explorer of the mountains in this region of the Himalayas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 5
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103MOUNTAINEERING FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 5
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