01 August 2004	Sunday	14 Jamadi-us-Saani 1425

KARACHI, July 31: The Pakistan Post Office will on Saturday issue commemorative stamps of Rs5 denomination about the golden jubilee of the first ascent of K-2, says a press release.

A press release says that Pakistan has some of the richest mountain ranges, the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush and the Karakorum, converging in the Northern Areas, capped with some of the tallest world's peaks among them K-2, the world second highest at 8,611 m known to locals and ancient Tibetans as Chogori.

"Discovered by Sir Godwin Austin in 1861, its 'perfect cone' astounded Colonel Francis Young Husband in 1887 when he first saw it. William Martin Conway then arrives on the scene in 1892 in the great ice junction, which he named Concordia. But it was not until 1909 when the Duke of Abruzzi Expedition reconnoitred K-2 that a good account of the mountain became available.