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Mount Godwin-Austen en · PROPN

Etymology

After Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, English topographer.

Meanings

  1. Former name of K2.
    • Arthur K. Gilkey, who was killed while trying to conquer Mount Godwin Austen (K-2) as a member of a nine-man American team, was believed to have been buried alive under an avalanche on a ridge at a height of 25,000 feet on Aug. 10, Dr. Charles S. Houston said today. [1953 September 1 [1953 August 31], John P. Callahan, “KASHMIR CLIMBER VANISHED IN STORM; New Yorker, Left Ill on Godwin Austen Slope, Had Disappeared When Party Returned”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2025, page 25:

wikipedia: Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen