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27 kwi 2022 · At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954.
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top. At 28,251...
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The most deadly events on K2 were the 1986 K2 disaster, 1995 K2 disaster, and 2008 K2 disaster. As of August 2023, an estimated 800 people had completed a summit of the mountain, and 96 had died trying.
2 sie 2024 · K2’s historic fatality rate has been above 20 percent, making it one of the most perilous high altitude mountaineering objectives in the world, comparable only to Annapurna I (8,091m), which historically had a death rate above 30 percent, and Nanga Parbat (8,126m), whose death-to-summit ratio traditionally hovers around 21 percent.
The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second- highest mountain on Earth. [1][2] Three others were seriously injured.
