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k2 Mountain

K2, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, is a majestic and challenging mountain located in the Himalayas on the border between Pakistan and China. With an elevation of 28,251 feet (8,611 meters), it is the second highest peak in the world, after Mount Everest. The mountain was named K2 after surveyors marked it as “Karakoram 2” in 1856. The “K” stands for Karakoram, and the “2” indicates that it was the second peak catalogued in the range.

Despite being thousands of feet shorter than Mount Everest, K2 is widely regarded as a much more difficult and … Continue Reading