How the Pakistan's Giant Peaks Got Their 'K' Names » Explorersweb

How the Pakistan's Giant Peaks Got Their 'K' Names » Explorersweb

In 1856, British Lieutenant Thomas Montgomerie was surveying the Karakoram range from a distant station in Kashmir during the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Because his team could not physically approach the mountains at the time, he assigned them temporary alphanumeric labels based on the order he logged them: K1, K2, and so on, with “K” standing for Karakoram. That this sequence was never meant to be a complete map or permanent nomencl…