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Savage Mountain

Savage Mountain proper noun: k2 (the world's second-highest mountain).

Proper noun

Savage Mountain or the Savage Mountain

  1. (poetic) K2 (the world's second-highest mountain).
    • 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...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, New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN...

Origin of Savage Mountain

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."

Questions about Savage Mountain

What does Savage Mountain mean?
Savage Mountain means k2 (the world's second-highest mountain).
What part of speech is Savage Mountain?
Savage Mountain is a proper noun.

Words near Savage Mountain in the dictionary

  1. savable
  2. savableness
  3. savage
  4. Savage Island
  5. Savage Islands
  6. Savage Mountain
  7. Savage River
  8. Savagean
  9. savaged
  10. savagedom
  11. savagely

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