K2, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). [5] .

K2, the world’s second highest peak (28,251 feet [8,611 metres]), second only to Mount Everest. K2 is located in the Karakoram Range and lies partly in a Chinese-administered enclave of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China, and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portion of Kashmir under the administration of ...

K2 (8,611m / 28,251ft) is the world’s second highest mountain, after Everest (8,848.9m), and has traditionally been considered the most difficult of the world’s 14 8,000-meter peaks.

Jun 9, 2017 · Mountaineers usually take one of these ten pre-determined routes to the peak of K2. K2 Routes to Explore The Abruzzi Spur Route on K2 (F) The Abruzzi Spur is K2’s go-to route, with 75% of climbers tackling this pass that is located on the Pakistan side of the mountain.

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, thought by many to be the ultimate climb. Organizer and Leader Dan Mazur put the first surviving Briton on the summit of K2 and the first Americans on the summit of K2. Leader David O'Brien has led 5 …

Alan on the summit of K2 on his 58th birthday, July 27 2014 holding a picture of his mom, Ida Arnette who died from Alzheimer;s disease on August 16, 2009. H...

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Climbing K2 is much more challenging and far more dangerous than climbing Everest via the standard North or Southside routes, and for this reason, we plan to keep our team size small and comprised of qualified climbers, supported by some of the best climbing Sherpas and mountain guides in the world.

In 1986 Polish climber Wanda Rutkiewicz became the first women ever to reach the top of K2 and was followed to the summit that same year by French climber Liliane Barrard and British climber Julie Tullis, both of whom died on their descent.

Everyone knows the K-2 is the most famous and one of the difficult mountain peaks in the world to climb. Even experienced mountaineers have expressed that Everest is not that difficult to climb than K-2. But the question arises, how does it look from …