Editing Gasherbrum II (section)

==Naming==
In 1856, [[Thomas George Montgomerie]], a member of the British [[Royal Engineers]] and part of the [[Great Trigonometric Survey]], sighted the mountain and named it "K4", meaning the fourth mountain of [[Karakoram]].<ref name="green">{{cite web|last=Green|first=Stewart|title=Gasherbrum II: 13th Highest Mountain in the World|url=http://climbing.about.com/od/8000metermountains/a/GasherbrumIIFac.htm|publisher=[[About.com]]|access-date=10 March 2013|archive-date=22 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922162651/http://climbing.about.com/od/8000metermountains/a/GasherbrumIIFac.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> The name "Gasherbrum" comes from the [[Balti language|Balti]] words ''rgasha'' ("beautiful") and ''brum'' ("mountain"). Contrary to popular belief, it does not mean "shining wall", which is how Sir [[William Martin Conway]] described nearby [[Gasherbrum IV]] on an 1892 exploration.<ref name="green" /><ref name="summitpostI">{{cite summitpost|id=152035|name=Gasherbrum I|accessdate=9 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="mountainsoftravelphotosIV">{{cite web|title=Gasherbrum IV Photo Gallery Home|url=http://www.mountainsoftravelphotos.com/Gasherbrum%20IV/Main.html|publisher=Mountains of Travel Photos|access-date=10 March 2013|date=June 2011}}</ref>{{sfn|Dyhrenfurth|2011|p=187}}