Record No.
MRB-2026-005803
World's Second-Highest Mountain
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K2
Pakistan
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Pakistan
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Record Description
K2 sits on the Pakistan-China border in the Karakoram range of Gilgit-Baltistan and rises 8,611 meters, making it the second-tallest mountain on Earth after Everest. It is also widely regarded as the most dangerous of the world's peaks to climb, with a far higher fatality-to-summit ratio than Everest.
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