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K2 is the second highest mountain peak on Earth

Located in the Karakoram range on the Pakistan-China border, K2 stands at 8,611 metres above sea level.

K2 is widely considered by mountaineers to be a more difficult and hazardous climb than Mount Everest due to severe weather and steep ice pyramids. Unlike Everest, it has no easy climbing routes and experiences frequent avalanches. It is also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chogori in local Balti.

At the highest peak in Hantana mountain range — Bdamita · CC BY-SA 4.0 · licence · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Located in the Karakoram range on the Pakistan-China border, K2 stands at 8,611 metres above sea level. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.