Mount K-2

The second highest mountain in the World, K-2 is located in Pakistan close to the border between Pakistan and China. The K2 is considered far more challenging than Mount Everest for climbers. As the second highest mountain. K2 is surrounded by three mountains of the Gasherbrum Group that also reach heights over 8000 ms. This makes the region most spectacular and unique with so many eight thousanders located in an area as small as the Central Karakorum. The mountain was given the name by a British Surveyor Thomas George Montgomerie, who in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of 1856 mapped the summits in the Karakorum from a long distance and consecutively numbered them (the K stands for Karakorum. The K2 is adorned with some nicknames, “savage mountain”, “killer mountain” and "mountain of mountains".