Savage Mountain

English

Etymology

Coined by American mountaineer George Irving Bell in 1953 as a reference to the mountain's extreme danger and difficulty; first given as "It's a savage mountain that tries to kill you."[1]

Proper noun

Savage Mountain or the Savage Mountain

  1. (poetic) K2 (the world's second-highest mountain).
    • 2010, Jennifer Jordan, “The Godwin–Austen Glacier, K2, July 2002”, in The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2‎[2], New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
      A few years earlier, I had learned that only five women had reached the summit of K2, and all of them were dead. Three perished on their descent, and the two that had managed to make it off the so-called Savage Mountain alive had died soon after while attempting other 8,000-meter peaks, a legendary distinction which separates the fourteen Himalayan giants which stand above the mark from the countless peaks which sit below it.

References

  1. ^ Stone, Larry (6 September 2018), “Summiting 'Savage Mountain': The harrowing story of these Washington climbers' K2 ascent”, in The Seattle Times‎[1], archived from the original on 11 September 2018
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