English Explanatory Dictionary

Savage Mountain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. K2 (the world's second-highest mountain).

Word forms

Savage Mountain the Savage Mountain

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."

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