Correct Answer:
C. K-2
The Karakoram mountain range, located in Pakistan, is renowned for hosting some of the world's highest and most challenging peaks, attracting mountaineers globally.
The correct answer is K-2. Peak Godwin Austen is the original name given to K-2, the second-highest mountain in the world, standing at 8,611 meters (28,251 feet). It was named in honor of Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, a British surveyor who was part of the first expedition to survey the peak in 1856. K-2 is famously known as the 'Savage Mountain' due to its extreme difficulty and high fatality rate for climbers.
The other options are incorrect:
- Mount Everest is the world's highest peak, located in the Himalayas, not the Karakoram, and is not known as Godwin Austen.
- Nanga Parbat is the ninth-highest mountain, also in the Himalayas (Pakistan), and is known as the 'Killer Mountain'.
- Tirich Mir is the highest peak of the Hindu Kush range, located in Pakistan.