K2

K2, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, at above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at . It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.

2000 film directed by Martin Campbell

1991 film directed by Franc Roddam

attempt on K2 in which 11 people died

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five deaths in five days on the mountain K2

The 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2 was the first to successfully climb the second highest mountain

German free climber (1900–1988)

location along the South-East Spur, the most-used route to summit K2