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Vote Now. Comments 0. Be the first one to comment. Read All Comments Post a Comment. Count: We have sent you a verification email. To verify, just follow the link in the message. One of only 14 mountains in the world that measure higher than 8,m, K2 is widely thought to be the most demanding mountain to climb in winter conditions.
A expedition led by George Wallerstein made an incorrect measurement showing that K2 was taller than Mount Everest, and therefore the tallest mountain in the world. A corrected measurement was made in , but by then the claim that K2 was the tallest mountain in the world had already made it into many news reports and reference works.
In December , Nepal and China announced together that Everest is 0. K2 is located miles northwest of Everest in the Karakoram section of the Himalayas along the Pakistan-China border. K2 was named by Thomas Montgomerie who made the first survey of the Karakoram range from Mount Haramukh, roughly km to the south in the s.
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