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26.08.2023 - 11:37 / insider.com
"If you asked a child to draw a picture of a mountain, they would draw K2," veteran mountaineer Jake Meyer tells Insider. "It looks like the perfect equilateral triangle with an ice-cream cone, a bit of snow, over the top of it."
As idyllic as that sounds, the mountain — which lies on the borders of Pakistan and China — is far from paradise.
K2, often nicknamed "The Savage Mountain," is so treacherous that, as of August 2022, approximately 700 people have reached the summit, Climbing magazine reports. So far, at least 91 people have died on the mountain, according to estimates from veteran mountaineer and climbing coach Alan Arnette, who previously spoke to Insider's Matthew Loh. (Arnette became the oldest US climber to reach the K2 summit in 2014.)
And in August, the death of Mohammed Hassan, a 27-year-old Pakistani porter on the mountain, made headlines around the world after footage leaked that appeared to show climbers passing by him to reach the summit. In an Instagram post from August 10, Norwegian climber Kristin Harila said that she and a few others spent an hour and half helping Hassan before deciding "to continue forward" to avoid a dangerous rescue. And in an interview with Insider, Harila denied the accusation that she and her team ignored Hassan.
While Mount Everest, at 29,032 feet, is the world's highest peak, it's K2 — a 28,251-foot-tall mountain that's 781 feet shorter — that is considered more deadly.
Meyer, who became the youngest British climber to complete the 7 Summits (the tallest mountain on each continent) in 2005, has climbed both Everest and K2. Speaking to Insider, the mountaineer shared the critical factors that make K2 that much more deadly.
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