K2: (also known as Savage
Mountain, Mountaineer's Mountain, Mount Godwin-Austen, Balti: Chogori
and Sarikoli: Mount Qogir) is the second-highest mountain on Earth,
after Mount Everest. With a peak elevation of 8,611 m (28,251 feet), K2
is part of the Karakoram Range, and is located on the border between
Baltistan, in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan, and the Taxkorgan
Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. It is more hazardous to
reach K2 from the Chinese side; thus, it is mostly climbed from the
Pakistani side. K2 is known as the Savage Mountain due to the difficulty
of ascent and the second-highest fatality rate among the "eight
thousanders" for those who climb it.
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