K2 Mountain
K2, otherwise called Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori (Balti: چھوغوری), is the second most elevated mountain on the planet, afterMount Everest, at 8,611 meters (28,251 ft) above ocean level. It is situated on the China-Pakistan fringe between Baltistan, in theGilgit–Baltistan area of northern Pakistan, and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. K2 is the most elevated purpose of the Karakoram extend and the most astounding point in both Pakistan and Xinjiang.
Name
Name
The name K2 is gotten from the documentation utilized by the Great Trigonometric Survey of British India. Thomas Montgomerie made the primary review of the Karakoram from Mount Haramukh, about 210 km (130 miles) toward the south, and portrayed the two most noticeable pinnacles, naming them K1 and K2.
The arrangement of the Great Trigonometric Survey was to utilize nearby names for mountains wherever conceivable and K1 was observed to be referred to locally as Masherbrum. K2, notwithstanding, showed up not to have procured a neighborhood name, conceivably because of its remoteness. The mountain is not obvious from Askole, the last town toward the south, or from the closest residence toward the north, and is just transitorily seen from the finish of the Baltoro Glacier, past which couple of nearby individuals would have ventured.The name Chogori, gotten from two Balti words, chhogo("big") and ri ("mountain") has been proposed as a neighborhood name, however confirm for its across the board utilize is insufficient. It might have been a compound name imagined by Western adventurers or just a confounded answer to the inquiry "What's that called?" It does, nonetheless, frame the reason for the name Qogir (rearranged Chinese: 乔戈里峰;traditional Chinese: 喬戈里峰; pinyin: Qiáogēlǐ Fēng) by which Chinese specialists authoritatively allude to the pinnacle. Other nearby names have been recommended including Lamba Pahar("Tall Mountain" in Urdu) and Dapsang, yet are not broadly utilized.
Without a nearby name, the name Mount Godwin-Austen was recommended, to pay tribute to Henry Godwin-Austen, an early traveler of the region, and keeping in mind that the name was dismisses by the Royal Geographical Society, it was utilized on a few maps, and keeps on being utilized once in a while.
The surveyor's check, K2, in this manner keeps on being the name by which the mountain is usually known. It is currently likewise utilized as a part of the Balti dialect, rendered as Kechu orKetu. The Italian climber Fosco Maraini contended in his record of the rising of Gasherbrum IV that while the name of K2 owes its starting point to risk, its cut, indifferent nature is profoundly suitable for so remote and testing a mountain.
The arrangement of the Great Trigonometric Survey was to utilize nearby names for mountains wherever conceivable and K1 was observed to be referred to locally as Masherbrum. K2, notwithstanding, showed up not to have procured a neighborhood name, conceivably because of its remoteness. The mountain is not obvious from Askole, the last town toward the south, or from the closest residence toward the north, and is just transitorily seen from the finish of the Baltoro Glacier, past which couple of nearby individuals would have ventured.The name Chogori, gotten from two Balti words, chhogo("big") and ri ("mountain") has been proposed as a neighborhood name, however confirm for its across the board utilize is insufficient. It might have been a compound name imagined by Western adventurers or just a confounded answer to the inquiry "What's that called?" It does, nonetheless, frame the reason for the name Qogir (rearranged Chinese: 乔戈里峰;traditional Chinese: 喬戈里峰; pinyin: Qiáogēlǐ Fēng) by which Chinese specialists authoritatively allude to the pinnacle. Other nearby names have been recommended including Lamba Pahar("Tall Mountain" in Urdu) and Dapsang, yet are not broadly utilized.
Without a nearby name, the name Mount Godwin-Austen was recommended, to pay tribute to Henry Godwin-Austen, an early traveler of the region, and keeping in mind that the name was dismisses by the Royal Geographical Society, it was utilized on a few maps, and keeps on being utilized once in a while.
The surveyor's check, K2, in this manner keeps on being the name by which the mountain is usually known. It is currently likewise utilized as a part of the Balti dialect, rendered as Kechu orKetu. The Italian climber Fosco Maraini contended in his record of the rising of Gasherbrum IV that while the name of K2 owes its starting point to risk, its cut, indifferent nature is profoundly suitable for so remote and testing a mountain.
Geographical setting
K2 lies in the northwestern Karakoram Range. It is situated in the Baltistan area of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China.[a] The Tarim sedimentary bowl outskirts the range on the north and the Lesser Himalayas on the south. Dissolve waters from huge icy masses, for example, those south and east of K2, nourish farming in the valleys and contribute fundamentally to the territorial crisp water supply.
K2 is only positioned 22nd by topographic unmistakable quality, a measure of a mountain's free stature, since it is a piece of the same expanded zone of inspire (counting the Karakoram, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Himalaya) as Mount Everest, in that it is conceivable to take after a way from K2 to Everest that goes no lower than 4,594 meters (15,072 ft), at Mustang Lo. Numerous different pinnacles, that are far lower than K2, are more autonomous in this sense. It is, be that as it may, the most noticeable top inside the Karakoram extend.
K2 is striking for its neighborhood alleviation and in addition its aggregate stature. It remains more than 3,000 meters (9,840 ft) above a great part of the frigid valley bottoms at its base. It is a reliably soak pyramid, dropping rapidly in all headings. The north side is the steepest: there it ascends more than 3,200 meters (10,500 ft) over the K2 (Qogir) Glacier in just 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) of level separation. In many ways, it accomplishes more than 2,800 meters (9,200 ft) of vertical help in under 4,000 meters (13,000 ft).
A 1986 campaign driven by George Wallerstein[19] made an erroneous estimation inaccurately demonstrating that K2 was taller than Mount Everest, and hence the tallest mountain on the planet. A redressed estimation was made in 1987, yet by that point the claim that K2 was the tallest mountain on the planet had officially made it into numerous news reports and reference works.
Topography
The mountains of K2 and Broad Peak, and the zone westbound to the lower ranges of Sarpo Laggo ice sheet comprise of transformative rocks, known as the K2 Gneiss and part of the Karakroam Metamorphic Complex. The K2 Gneiss comprises of a blend of orthogneiss and biotite-rich paragneiss. On the south and southeast face of K2, the orthogneiss comprises of a blend of a firmly foliated plagioclase-hornblende gneiss and a biotite-hornblende-K-feldspar orthogneiss, which has been meddled by garnet-mica leucograniticdikes. In places, the paragneisses incorporate clinopyroxene-hornblende-bearing psammites, garnet (grossular)- diopside marbles, and biotite-graphite phyllites. Close to the commemoration to the climbers, who have kicked the bucket on K2, above Base Camp on the south goad, thin unclean marbles with quartzites and mica schists, called the Gilkey-Puchoz grouping, are interbanded inside the orthogneisses. On the west face of Broad Peak and south goad of K2, lamprophyre barriers, which comprise of clinopyroxene and biotite-porphyritic vogesitesand minettes, have meddled the K2 gneiss. The K2 Gneiss is isolated from the encompassing sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of the encompassing Karakroam Metamorphic Complex by typical flaws. For instance, a blame isolates the K2 gneiss of the east face of K2 from limestones and slates containing adjacent Skyang Kangri.
40Ar/39Ar ages of 115 to 120 million years back acquired from and geochemical investigations of the K2 Gneiss show that it is a transformed, more seasoned, Cretaceous, pre-collisional rock. The granitic antecedent (protolith) to the K2 Gneiss started as the consequence of the creation of huge assemblages of magma by a northward-plunging subduction zonealong what was the mainland edge of Asia around then and their interruption as batholiths into its lower mainland outside layer. Amid the underlying crash of the Asia and Indian plates, this granitic batholith was covered to profundities of around 20 kilometers (12 mi) or all the more, exceedingly transformed, profoundly distorted, and mostly remelted amid the Eocene Period to shape gneiss. Afterward, the K2 Gneiss was then barged in by leucogranite embankments lastly uncovered and elevated along major breakback push flaws amid post-Miocene time. The K2 Gneiss was uncovered as the whole K2-Broad Peak-Gasherbrum run experienced quick elevate with which disintegration rates have been not able keep pace.
K2 is only positioned 22nd by topographic unmistakable quality, a measure of a mountain's free stature, since it is a piece of the same expanded zone of inspire (counting the Karakoram, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Himalaya) as Mount Everest, in that it is conceivable to take after a way from K2 to Everest that goes no lower than 4,594 meters (15,072 ft), at Mustang Lo. Numerous different pinnacles, that are far lower than K2, are more autonomous in this sense. It is, be that as it may, the most noticeable top inside the Karakoram extend.
K2 is striking for its neighborhood alleviation and in addition its aggregate stature. It remains more than 3,000 meters (9,840 ft) above a great part of the frigid valley bottoms at its base. It is a reliably soak pyramid, dropping rapidly in all headings. The north side is the steepest: there it ascends more than 3,200 meters (10,500 ft) over the K2 (Qogir) Glacier in just 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) of level separation. In many ways, it accomplishes more than 2,800 meters (9,200 ft) of vertical help in under 4,000 meters (13,000 ft).
A 1986 campaign driven by George Wallerstein[19] made an erroneous estimation inaccurately demonstrating that K2 was taller than Mount Everest, and hence the tallest mountain on the planet. A redressed estimation was made in 1987, yet by that point the claim that K2 was the tallest mountain on the planet had officially made it into numerous news reports and reference works.
Topography
The mountains of K2 and Broad Peak, and the zone westbound to the lower ranges of Sarpo Laggo ice sheet comprise of transformative rocks, known as the K2 Gneiss and part of the Karakroam Metamorphic Complex. The K2 Gneiss comprises of a blend of orthogneiss and biotite-rich paragneiss. On the south and southeast face of K2, the orthogneiss comprises of a blend of a firmly foliated plagioclase-hornblende gneiss and a biotite-hornblende-K-feldspar orthogneiss, which has been meddled by garnet-mica leucograniticdikes. In places, the paragneisses incorporate clinopyroxene-hornblende-bearing psammites, garnet (grossular)- diopside marbles, and biotite-graphite phyllites. Close to the commemoration to the climbers, who have kicked the bucket on K2, above Base Camp on the south goad, thin unclean marbles with quartzites and mica schists, called the Gilkey-Puchoz grouping, are interbanded inside the orthogneisses. On the west face of Broad Peak and south goad of K2, lamprophyre barriers, which comprise of clinopyroxene and biotite-porphyritic vogesitesand minettes, have meddled the K2 gneiss. The K2 Gneiss is isolated from the encompassing sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of the encompassing Karakroam Metamorphic Complex by typical flaws. For instance, a blame isolates the K2 gneiss of the east face of K2 from limestones and slates containing adjacent Skyang Kangri.
40Ar/39Ar ages of 115 to 120 million years back acquired from and geochemical investigations of the K2 Gneiss show that it is a transformed, more seasoned, Cretaceous, pre-collisional rock. The granitic antecedent (protolith) to the K2 Gneiss started as the consequence of the creation of huge assemblages of magma by a northward-plunging subduction zonealong what was the mainland edge of Asia around then and their interruption as batholiths into its lower mainland outside layer. Amid the underlying crash of the Asia and Indian plates, this granitic batholith was covered to profundities of around 20 kilometers (12 mi) or all the more, exceedingly transformed, profoundly distorted, and mostly remelted amid the Eocene Period to shape gneiss. Afterward, the K2 Gneiss was then barged in by leucogranite embankments lastly uncovered and elevated along major breakback push flaws amid post-Miocene time. The K2 Gneiss was uncovered as the whole K2-Broad Peak-Gasherbrum run experienced quick elevate with which disintegration rates have been not able keep pace.
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