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World's Highest Peak May Be K2, Not Everest
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Mount Everest may lose the title of the world's highest peak to a
remote Himalayan cousin if preliminary results from a high-tech
survey method are verified, an expedition leader said.
The peak, with the unglamorous name of K2 (also known as Godwin
Austen), was measured last summer by the American K2 Expedition and
may be as much as 900 feet taller than its previous stated height of
28,250 feet, expedition leader Lance Owens said Friday.
That would make the peak more 122 feet higher than Everest's
29,028 feet, he said.
"I guess if K2 is one inch higher than Everest, it means that ...
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