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On the Stamp
A painting of the pyramid of K2 catching the light above blue ridges, with its name in Hindi and English, on a ₹4 stamp.
K2 (Godwin Austen)
India Post issued four stamps on 19 May 1988 as Himalayan Peaks, at ₹1.50, ₹4, ₹5 and ₹6.50. At 8,611 metres K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, in the Karakoram. It has also been called Mount Godwin-Austen, after the surveyor Henry Godwin-Austen. Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli first reached the top on 31 July 1954. The design follows a painting by R. N. Pasricha. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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