secret realities concerning Mountain K2 and the reason it is considered to as one of world's deadliest

Joy comes in peaks and valleys, someone once claimed. How precise and realistic that is for individuals who have truly gathered the courage to summit the high hills around the planet. While a Mexican woman by the name of Viridiana Alvarez Chávez recently climbed K2, one of the highest peaks in the world, we went ahead and revealed some significant facts about this particular mountain and the factors it is considered deadly in the world.

Here they are:

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K2 

"It's a savage mountain that tries to kill you."

George Bell—a climber on the 1953 American expedition

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A TRIBUTE TO ALI SADPARA

"Ali Sadpara, the great son of mountains slept forever on the second-highest mountain of the world."

He achieved the first-ever winter summit of Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-highest mountain, and he is the only Pakistani to have climbed 8 of the world's 14 highest mountains.

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In honor of Henry Godwin-Austen, a renowned explorer of the region, K2 has often been referred to as Mount Godwin-Austen. Several maps and places use the name despite the Royal Geographical Society rejecting it.

Beginning in the Pakistan region, the rise to K2 commences. Its base camp is located at 16896 feet above sea level.

Five of the world's 17 highest mountains are situated

surrounding K2, which is an interesting statistic.

The only 8000-meter summit that has never been scaled from its East Face or in the winter is K2. Due to its northern location, it is particularly susceptible to harsh winters.

George Bell, a climber on the 1953 American Expedition, almost slipped off the climb & gave K2 the title "Savage Mountain" owing to its deadly condition. One climber is believed to die for every four who ascend the peak.

K2 has never before been climbed in the winter before. The 2019 excursions were a failure.

In contrast, Mt. Everest has a 4% death rate whereas K2 does have a 25% death rate. 

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PICTORIAL ARCHIVE FROM HISTORY

 

By Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, though often mistakenly attributed to Vittorio Sella (see Curran, p66) - Scanned from K2 - The Story of the Savage Mountain by Jim Curran, ISBN 0340660074, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3850678

By Lino Lacedelli - AAVV, Italienische Karakorum-Expedition 1954, Berge der Welt, vol. 10, pag. 39-72 (1955), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16209699

By derivative work: EMajor (talk)K2_2006.jpg: Svy123 - K2_2006.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5722182

By https://www.dlr.de/ - https://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/Portaldata/1/Resources/bilder/portal/portal_2013_2/scaled/k2_gal_3d1_xl.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99034431

By Thomas Montgomerie (1830-1878) - Scanned from K2 - The Story of the Savage Mountain by Jim Curran, ISBN 0340660074, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4518328

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AWAIS ASHRAF

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