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K2 is the second highest mountain in the world. The highest mountain in the world is Mt. Everest. The tallest mountain in the world is Mauna Kea. Although most of it is underwater, the volcano rises more than 10,000 meters from the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
The highest peak in the world, if not Mount Everest, is K2, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen. It is located on the China-Pakistan border. K2 is the second-highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest.
The sum height of the world's two tallest mountains, Mount Everest and K2, is 16,854 meters. Mount Everest is located in the Himalayas mountain range and K2 is located in the Karakoram mountain range.
The second-highest mountain in the world is K2 with a height of 8,611 meters.
The name K2 is derived from the Great Trigonometric Survey of India in the 1850's. Thomas Montgomerie, a British surveyor, made the first survey of the Karakorum, a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, and sketched the two most prominent peaks, labelling them K1 and K2.
Everest.
Everest: 8,848 metres K2: 8,611 metres
Mount Everest stands at 8,848m high. K2 stands at 8,611m high, making Mount Everest the highest mountain.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, so therefore is higher than K2. Mount Everest is 8848 meters tall and K2 is 8611 meters tall. You may not know this but even though Mount Everest is higher K2 is acctually harder to climb.
Reinhold Messner from Italy was the first person to have reached the summit of Mount Everest and K2. Mount Everest 8th May 1978 K2 12th July 1979
Everest
Go onto Google Earth, they show both Mount Everest and K2 in great detail.
Although K2 is not as high as Mount Everest it is said to be more dangerous to climb. This is because the route is much harder and the weather on K2 is much more fierce.
K2 is another name for Mount Everest.
Although Mount Everest is higher it is K2 that is more deadly. It is harder to climb and has a very bad weather climate.
Everest's peek at 8,848 m is higher than that of K2 at 8,611 m. Moreover Everest has a prominence of 8,848 m while K2 stands only 4,017 m above its surrounding topography, meaning that Everest itself not only has more altitude than K2, but is more than twice as tall in itself.
Mnt Everest, K2, Kilimanjaro, Mt Mckinley, Aconcagua, Mont Blanc