Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen

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Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU, known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, surveyor, naturalist and geologist.

Godwin-Austen in an image published in 1890

Illustration by Godwin-Austen of Paradoxornis nipalensis which he described as Suthora daflaensis

Godwin-Austen depicted for his role as President of the Geography Department of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1883

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K2, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.

K2 from Broad Peak Base Camp

Montgomerie's original sketch from 1856 in which he applied the notation K2

View above Camp-IV of K2

The west face of K2 taken from the Savoia Glacier, on the 1909 expedition