K2 First Impressions Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

K2 First Impressions



O distant mountain I do not give you a name
By whatever bare bones and skeletal stones
You are called the storm, the nakedness
Planet earth exhibits, before the first man.
Desolate one, terrifying silence to the lone
Smallness, in no proportion, equals you, who is
So completely ignored by Nature, so completely
Incapable of entering into communion with you.
Your heaviness weighs heavily on me, so long -
That I lay asleep in your vibe of listless solitude.

Sadiqullah Khan
Gilgit
October 14,2014.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
K2, also known as Chhogori/Qogir, Ketu/Kechu, and Mount Godwin-Austen (Urdu: شاہ گوری) , is the second-highest mountain on Earth after Mount Everest. It is located on the border between Baltistan, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. With a peak elevation of 8,611 m (28,251 feet) , K2 is the highest point of the Karakoram Range and the highest point in Pakistan.
K2 is known as the Savage Mountain due to the extreme difficulty of ascent and the second-highest fatality rate among the eight thousanders. One in every four people who have attempted the summit have died trying. It is more difficult and hazardous to reach the peak of K2 from the Chinese side; thus, it is usually climbed from the Pakistani side. Unlike Annapurna, the mountain with the highest fatality-to-summit rate (246 summits,55 deaths) , K2 has never been climbed during wintertime.
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