K2... The Savage Mountain Base Camp...

K2 / Mount Godwin-Austen / Chhogori or SAVAGE Mountain

K2, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori is the second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level. It is located on the China-Pakistan border between Baltistan, in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. K2 is the highest point of the Karakoram range and the highest point in both Pakistan and Xinjiang...

K2 is known as the Savage Mountain due to the extreme difficulty of ascent. It has the second-highest fatality rate among the eight thousanders. With around 300 successful summits and 77 fatalities, about one person dies on the mountain for every four who summit...

Abruzzi Spur route (Most popular route to summit this mountain)

It is more difficult and hazardous to reach the peak of K2 from the Chinese side; thus, it is usually climbed from the Pakistani side...

Climbers and portes are moving towards base camp

The mountain was first surveyed by a European survey team in 1856. Team member Thomas Montgomerie designated the mountain "K2" for being the second peak of the Karakoram range...

Final push towards summit

First successful summit of K2 was held on 31 July 1954 by the Italian expedition team. The expedition was led by Ardito Desio, and the two climbers who reached the summit were Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. The team included a Pakistani member, Colonel Muhammad Ata-Ullah...

K2 has never been climbed during winter

I used to climb mountains a lot: I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. I didn’t get quite to the top – Greg Mortenson

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Everest Base Camp (EBC)

Mount Everest / Sagarmatha / Chomolungma 

“Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer”

“No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time”  - Sir Edmund Hillary...

Climbers moving towards summit & Khumbu icefall

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well   -  Yuichiro Miura...

Clouds gathered to hide the highest point on earth

“We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for” – Mallory...

Mount Everest from the top of Mount Gokyo Ri

“When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath… I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few meters this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.” – Reinhold Messner...

You do not climb a mountain like Everest by trying to race ahead on your own, or by competing with your comrades. You do it slowly are carefully, by unselfish teamwork. Certainly I wanted to reach the top by myself; it was the one thing that I had dreamed of all my life. But if the lot fell to someone else, I would take it like a man, and not a crybaby — for that is the mountain way – Tenzing Norgay...

Note: all the pictures, quotations and information are collected from various sites and pages on the internet