K2, the Glossary
K2, at above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at.[1]
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211 relations: Achille Compagnoni, Agence France-Presse, Aleister Crowley, Ali Sadpara, Alison Hargreaves, Alpine climbing, Altitude sickness, Amir Mehdi, André Weil, Andrzej Bargiel, Andrzej Zawada, Anja Blacha, Ardito Desio, Argon–argon dating, Arnold Coster, Art Gilkey, Ashraf Aman, Askole, Associated Press, Atanas Skatov, Azad Kashmir, Balti language, Baltistan, Baltoro Glacier, Batholith, Biotite, Bivouac shelter, Bottleneck (K2), Boyan Petrov, Broad Peak, Carlos Soria Fontán, Central Intelligence Agency, Cerebral edema, Charles Snead Houston, China, Chogolisa, Classical Tibetan, Concordia (Karakoram), Continental crust, Continental margin, Couloir, Cretaceous, Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, Death zone, Denis Urubko, Diabetes, Dike (geology), Diopside, Dudley Wolfe, Eight-thousander, ... Expand index (161 more) »
- China–Pakistan border
- Eight-thousanders of the Karakoram
- Highest points of Chinese provinces
- Kashgar Prefecture
- National symbols of Pakistan
- Seven Second Summits
- Shigar District
Achille Compagnoni
Achille Compagnoni (26 September 1914 – 13 May 2009) was an Italian mountaineer and skier.
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, philosopher, political theorist, novelist, mountaineer, and painter.
Ali Sadpara
Muhammad Ali Sadpara (–) was a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer.
Alison Hargreaves
Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountaineer.
Alpine climbing
Alpine climbing (Alpinklettern) is a type of mountaineering that involves using any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpine environment.
Altitude sickness
Altitude sickness, the mildest form being acute mountain sickness (AMS), is a harmful effect of high altitude, caused by rapid exposure to low amounts of oxygen at high elevation.
Amir Mehdi
Amir Mehdi (sometimes spelled Amir Mahdi, and also known as Hunza Mehdi; 1913–1999) was a Pakistani mountaineer and porter known for being part of the team which made the first successful ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1953, and of K2 in 1954 with an Italian expedition.
André Weil
André Weil (6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry.
Andrzej Bargiel
Andrzej Leszek Bargiel (born April 18, 1988, in Rabka, Poland) is a Polish ski mountaineer, backcountry skier, mountain runner and climber.
Andrzej Zawada
Andrzej Zawada (born Maria Andrzej Zawada; 16 July 1928 – 21 August 2000) was a Polish mountaineer, expedition leader and pioneer of winter Himalayism.
Anja Blacha
Anja Karen Blacha (born 18 June 1990) is a German mountaineer.
Ardito Desio
Count Ardito Desio (18 April 1897 – 12 December 2001) was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.
Argon–argon dating
Argon–argon (or 40Ar/39Ar) dating is a radiometric dating method invented to supersede potassiumndashargon (K/Ar) dating in accuracy.
Arnold Coster
Arnold Coster (born Arnold Schiedam, 1976, Netherlands) is a Dutch mountaineer.
Art Gilkey
Arthur Karr Gilkey (September 25, 1926 – August 10, 1953) was an American geologist and mountaineer.
Ashraf Aman
Ashraf Aman (اشرف امان., born 15 January 1938) is a Pakistani mountaineer, adventurer, and engineer.
Askole
Askole, Askoli, or Askoly (اسکولی) is a small town located in Braldo Valley (district Shigar), in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
Atanas Skatov
Atanas Georgiev Skatov (11 March 1978 – 5 February 2021) was a Bulgarian mountaineer, vegan and agronomist in plant protection.
Azad Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee.
Balti language
Balti (Nastaʿlīq script:, Tibetan script: སྦལ་ཏི།) is a Tibetic language natively spoken by the ethnic Balti people in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Nubra Valley of the Leh district and in the Kargil district of Ladakh, India.
Baltistan
Baltistan (بلتستان; script) also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet (script), is a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan and constitutes a northern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
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Baltoro Glacier
The Baltoro Glacier is a glacier located in the Shigar District of the Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan.
Batholith
A batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than in area, that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust.
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Biotite
Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.
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Bivouac shelter
A bivouac shelter or bivvy (alternately bivy, bivi, bivvi) is any of a variety of improvised camp site or shelter that is usually of a temporary nature, used especially by soldiers or people engaged in backpacking, bikepacking, scouting or mountain climbing.
Bottleneck (K2)
The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur (also known as Abruzzi Spur), the most-used route to the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, in the Karakoram, on the border of Pakistan and China.
Boyan Petrov
Boyan Petrov (Боян Петров, born 7 February 1973 – disappeared 5 May 2018) was a Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer, who worked at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.
Broad Peak
Broad Peak (بروڈ پیک) is one of the eight-thousanders, and is located in the Karakoram range spanning Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China. K2 and Broad Peak are China–Pakistan border, eight-thousanders of the Karakoram, international mountains of Asia and mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Carlos Soria Fontán
Carlos Soria Fontán (Ávila, Spain, February 5, 1939) is a Spanish mountaineer who has taken up the challenge of becoming the oldest person in the world to reach the summits of the 14 eight-thousanders.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Cerebral edema
Cerebral edema is excess accumulation of fluid (edema) in the intracellular or extracellular spaces of the brain.
Charles Snead Houston
Charles Snead Houston (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chogolisa
Chogolisa (چوگولیزا derived from Chogo Ling Sa; literally "Great Hunt") is a trapezoidal mountain located in the Karakoram range within the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. K2 and Chogolisa are mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.
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Classical Tibetan
Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period.
Concordia (Karakoram)
Concordia (کونکورڈیا) is the confluence of the Baltoro Glacier and the Godwin-Austen Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan.
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Continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.
Continental margin
A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters.
Couloir
A couloir ("passage" or "corridor") is a narrow gully with a steep gradient in a mountainous terrain.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Dawa Yangzum Sherpa
Dawa Yangzum Sherpa also known as Dawa Yangzum is a Nepali born mountain climber and the first woman to become an international mountain guide from Nepal.
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Death zone
In mountaineering, the death zone refers to altitudes above a certain point where the pressure of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span.
Denis Urubko
Denis Urubko (Дени́с Ви́кторович Уру́бко; 29 July 1973) is a Russian-Polish climber.
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.
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Dike (geology)
In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.
Diopside
Diopside is a monoclinic pyroxene mineral with composition.
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Dudley Wolfe
Dudley Francis Cecil Wolfe (February 6, 1896 – July 30, 1939) was an American socialite.
Eight-thousander
The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains recognised by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) as being more than in height above sea level, and sufficiently independent of neighbouring peaks.
Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.
Fixed rope
In climbing and mountaineering, a fixed-rope (or fixed-line) is the practice of installing networks of in-situ anchored static climbing ropes on climbing routes to assist any following climbers (and porters) to ascend more rapidly—and with less effort—by using mechanical aid devices called ascenders.
Foliation (geology)
Foliation in geology refers to repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks.
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Fosco Maraini
Fosco Maraini (15 November 1912 – 8 June 2004) was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.
Franc Roddam
Francis George "Franc" Roddam (born 29 April 1946) is an English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher, best known as the creator of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Masterchef and as the director of Quadrophenia (1979).
Fredrik Ericsson
Jan Fredrik Ericsson (14 March 1975 in Sundsvall, Sweden – 6 August 2010 at K2, Pakistan) was a Swedish mountaineer and extreme skier.
Fritz Wiessner
Fritz Wiessner (February 26, 1900 – July 3, 1988) was a German American pioneer of free climbing.
Frostbite
Frostbite is a skin injury that occurs when someone is exposed to extremely low temperatures, causing the freezing of the skin or other tissues, commonly affecting the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin areas.
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Garnet
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.
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Garrett Madison
Garrett Madison (born November 3, 1978) is an American mountaineer, guide and expedition leader.
Gasherbrum I
Gasherbrum I (گاشر برم- ۱), surveyed as K5 and also known as Hidden Peak, is the 11th highest mountain in the world at above sea level. K2 and Gasherbrum I are China–Pakistan border, eight-thousanders of the Karakoram, international mountains of Asia and mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Gasherbrum II
Gasherbrum II (گاشر برم- ۲); surveyed as K4, is the 13th highest mountain in the world at above sea level. K2 and Gasherbrum II are China–Pakistan border, eight-thousanders of the Karakoram, international mountains of Asia and mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Gasherbrum IV
Gasherbrum IV (گاشر برم-4), surveyed as K3, is the 17th highest mountain on Earth and the 6th highest in Pakistan, as well as the highest independent mountain under eight thousand meters in Pakistan. K2 and Gasherbrum IV are mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.
George Everest
Sir George Everest, (4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.
George Irving Bell
George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley.
George Wallerstein
George Wallerstein (January 13, 1930 – May 13, 2021) was an American astronomer who researched the chemical composition of stellar atmospheres.
Ger McDonnell
Gerard McDonnell (20 January 1971 – 2 August 2008), mountaineer and engineer, was the first Irishman to reach the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008.
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December 1970) is an Austrian mountaineer.
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Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.
Gilkey Memorial
The Gilkey Memorial is a memorial and cenotaph for those who have died while climbing K2.
Gneiss
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.
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Godwin-Austen Glacier
The Godwin-Austen Glacier is a glacier in the Karakoram range and is close to K2, the highest mountain peak in Pakistan and second highest on Earth, in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
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Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
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Graphite
Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.
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Great Trigonometrical Survey
The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India was a project that aimed to carry out a survey across the Indian subcontinent with scientific precision.
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Guy Knowles
Guy John Fenton Knowles (1879–1959) was an engineer, an art collector and a benefactor of several museum collections.
Hanging glacier
A hanging glacier originates high on the wall of a glacial valley and descends only part of the way to the surface of the main glacier and abruptly stops, typically at a cliff.
Harmukh
Mt Harmukh (originally "Haramukuta") is a mountain with a peak elevation of, in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir in India.
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Headwall
In physical geography and geology, the headwall of a glacial cirque is its highest cliff.
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Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, surveyor, naturalist and geologist.
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High-altitude cerebral edema
High-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) is a medical condition in which the brain swells with fluid because of the physiological effects of traveling to a high altitude.
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High-altitude pulmonary edema
High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening form of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema that occurs in otherwise healthy people at altitudes typically above.
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Hornblende
Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals.
Ichiro Yoshizawa
was a Japanese mountaineer and expedition leader.
International Business Times
The International Business Times is an American online newspaper that publishes five national editions in four languages.
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Italians
Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.
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Jammu and Kashmir (state)
Jammu and Kashmir was a region formerly administered by India as a state from 1952 to 2019, constituting the southern and southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since the mid-20th century.
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Janusz Kurczab
Janusz Kurczab (6 September 1937 – 11 April 2015) was a Polish fencer, mountaineer and expedition leader.
Jerzy Kukuczka
Józef Jerzy Kukuczka (24 March 1948 – 24 October 1989) was a Polish mountaineer.
Jim Whittaker
James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American climber and mountain guide.
Jim Wickwire
Jim Wickwire (born June 8, 1940) is the first American to summit K2, the second highest mountain in the world (summit at). Wickwire is also known for surviving an overnight solo bivouac on K2 at an elevation above; considered "one of the most notorious bivouacs in mountaineering history".
John Roskelley
John Roskelley (born December 1, 1948) is an American mountain climber and author.
John Snorri Sigurjónsson
John Snorri Sigurjónsson (20 June 1973 – 5 February 2021) was an Icelandic mountaineer.
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Josef Rakoncaj
Josef "Rak" Rakoncaj (born 6 April 1951) is a Czech mountaineer, mountaineering coach, author of books on mountaineering and also an entrepreneur in the field of special clothing and equipment for trekking and mountaineering expeditions.
Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto
Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto (born February 9, 1987 – February 5, 2021) was a Chilean architect and mountaineer.
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Jules Jacot-Guillarmod
Jules Jacot-Guillarmod (24 December 1868 – 5 June 1925) was a Swiss physician, mountaineer and photographer.
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Julie Tullis
Julie Tullis (née Palau) (15 March 1939 – 6/7 August 1986) was a British climber and filmmaker who died while descending from K2's summit during a storm, along with four other climbers from several expeditions, during the "Black Summer" of 1986.
K2
K2, at above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at. K2 and K2 are China–Pakistan border, eight-thousanders of the Karakoram, highest points of Chinese provinces, highest points of countries, international mountains of Asia, Kashgar Prefecture, mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan, national symbols of Pakistan, seven Second Summits and Shigar District.
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K2 (film)
K2 is a 1991 survival drama film starring Michael Biehn and Matt Craven, directed by Franc Roddam, and written by Patrick Meyers and Scott Roberts, adapting Meyers' original 1982 stage play.
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K2: Siren of the Himalayas
K2: Siren of the Himalayas is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Dave Ohlson.
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K3 surface
In mathematics, a complex analytic K3 surface is a compact connected complex manifold of dimension 2 with а trivial canonical bundle and irregularity zero.
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā and Khangchendzonga, is the third-highest mountain in the world. K2 and Kangchenjunga are highest points of countries and international mountains of Asia.
Karakoram
The Karakoram is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
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Kashmir conflict
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region.
Kazuya Hiraide
was a Japanese ski mountaineer, Alpine climber, and professional mountain cameraman.
Kenro Nakajima
Takeo "Kenro" Nakajima (中島 健郎; October 19, 1984 – July 27, 2024) was a Japanese elite alpinist and cameraman.
Korala
Korala or Kora La or Koro La is a mountain pass between Tibet and Upper Mustang. At only in elevation, it has been considered the lowest drivable path between Tibetan Plateau and the Indian subcontinent. It currently serves as a vehicle border crossing between China and Nepal. Korala in Mustang is the fourth border point that Beijing has reopened after the Rasuwa-Kerung, Tatopani-Khasa and Yari (Humla)-Purang.
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Kristin Harila
Kristin Harila (born 28 March 1986) is a Norwegian-Northern Saami mountaineer and former cross-country skier.
Krzysztof Wielicki
Krzysztof Jerzy Wielicki (Polish pronunciation:; born 5 January 1950) is a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest Polish climbers in history.
Lamprophyre
Lamprophyres are uncommon, small-volume ultrapotassic igneous rocks primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths, laccoliths, stocks, and small intrusions.
Leszek Cichy
Leszek Roman Cichy (born 14 November 1951), is a Polish climber, financier, and entrepreneur.
Leucogranite
Leucogranite is a light-colored, granitic, igneous rock containing almost no dark minerals.
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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Lino Lacedelli
Lino Lacedelli (4 December 1925 – 20 November 2009) was an Italian mountaineer.
List of books about K2
The following is a list of books about K2, a mountain in the Karakorum Range between Pakistan and China, listed by expedition date: 1887 - British - Younghusband.
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List of deaths on eight-thousanders
The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains that rise more than above sea level.
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List of highest mountains on Earth
There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of or greater above sea level.
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List of Mount Everest death statistics
List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest.
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List of mountain peaks by prominence
This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.
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List of mountains in Pakistan
Pakistan is home to 108 peaks above 7,000 metres and 4555 above 6,000 m. There is no count of the peaks above 5,000 and 4,000 m. Five of the 14 highest independent peaks in the world (the eight-thousanders) are in Pakistan (four of which lie in the surroundings of Concordia; the confluence of Baltoro Glacier and Godwin Austen Glacier).
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List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
Over 340 people have died attempting to reach—or return from—the summit of Mount Everest which, at, is Earth's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers.
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List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System.
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Louis Reichardt
Louis French Reichardt (born June 4, 1942) is a noted American neuroscientist and mountaineer, the first American to summit both Everest and K2.
Lower Himalayan Range
The Lower Himalayan Range (पर्वत शृङ्खला parbat shrinkhalā) – also called the Middle Himalayas or Lesser Himalayas or Himachal – is a major east–west mountain range with elevations 3,700 to 4,500 m (12,000 to 14,500 feet) in the northernmost regions of the Indian subcontinent along the crest, paralleling the much higher High Himalayas range from the Indus River in Pakistan across northern India, Nepal and Bhutan but then the two ranges become increasingly difficult to differentiate east of Bhutan as the ranges approach the Brahmaputra River.
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Magma
Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.
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Martin Campbell
Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand film and television director, based in the United Kingdom.
Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, (12 April 1856 – 19 April 1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.
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Masherbrum
Masherbrum (ما شربرم; formerly known as K1) is a mountain located in the Ghanche District in the Gilgit Baltistan region of Pakistan. K2 and Masherbrum are mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Maxut Zhumayev
Maxut Zhumayev (born 23 December 1976) is a Kazakhstani mountaineer who climbed all 14 of the eight-thousander peaks (i.e. mountains above 8,000 metres), and without the use of supplemental oxygen.
Meherban Karim
Meherban Karim (21 January 1979 – 2 August 2008) was a Pakistani mountaineer.
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
Mica
Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates.
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Mingma Gyabu Sherpa
Mingma Gyabu Sherpa (also known as Mingma David, born 16 May 1989), is a Nepalese mountaineer and rescue climber.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. K2 and mount Everest are highest points of Chinese provinces, highest points of countries and international mountains of Asia.
Mount Hood climbing accidents
Mount Hood climbing accidents are incidents related to mountain climbing or hiking on Oregon's Mount Hood.
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Mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge.
Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Nepalis
Nepali (also Nepalese; नेपाली) are the citizens of Nepal under the provisions of Nepali nationality law.
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Nick Ryan
Nick Ryan is a film director and producer from Dublin, Ireland.
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Nirmal Purja
Nirmal Purja (known as Nims or Nimsdai) (निर्मल पुर्जा; born 25 July 1983) is a Nepal-born naturalised British mountaineer.
Orthoclase
Orthoclase, or orthoclase feldspar (endmember formula KAlSi3O8), is an important tectosilicate mineral which forms igneous rock.
Oscar Eckenstein
Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 8 April 1921) was an English rock climber and mountaineer, and a pioneer in the sport of bouldering.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Oxygen tank
An oxygen tank is an oxygen storage vessel, which is either held under pressure in gas cylinders, referred to in the industry as high pressure oxygen cylinders, or as liquid oxygen in a cryogenic storage tank.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
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Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
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Pasang Kikuli
Pasang Kikuli (1911–1939) was a Nepalese mountain climber and explorer who acted as sherpa and later sirdar for many Himalayan expeditions.
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita (born 1984).
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Pete Schoening
Peter Kittilsby Schoening (July 30, 1927 – September 22, 2004) was an American mountaineer.
Phyllite
Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock formed from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation.
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Piotr Morawski
Piotr Morawski (27 December 1976 – 8 April 2009) was a Polish mountaineer.
Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.
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Porphyritic
Porphyritic is an adjective used in geology to describe igneous rocks with a distinct difference in the size of mineral crystals, with the larger crystals known as phenocrysts.
Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, (29 January 1873 – 18 March 1933) was an Italian mountaineer and explorer, briefly Infante of Spain as son of Amadeo I of Spain, member of the royal House of Savoy and cousin of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III.
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Protolith
A protolith is the original, unmetamorphosed rock from which a given metamorphic rock is formed.
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Psammite
Psammite (Greek: psammitēs "(made) from sand", from psammos "sand") is a general term for sandstone.
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Pyroxene
The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.
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Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Andreas Messner (born 17 September 1944) is an Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South Tyrol.
Rick Ridgeway
Rick Ridgeway (born August 12, 1949) is an American mountaineer and adventurer, who during his career has also been an environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and businessman.
Rock & Ice
Rock & Ice is a magazine published by Outside focusing on rock and ice climbing.
Rock climbing
Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
Serac
A serac (from Swiss French sérac) is a block or column of glacial ice, often formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier.
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Sergi Mingote
Sergi Mingote i Moreno (9 March 1971 – 16 January 2021) was a Spanish mountaineer.
Seven Second Summits
The Seven Second Summits are the second-highest mountains of each of the seven continents.
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Shaksgam River
The Shaksgam River (translit, translit) is a left tributary of the Yarkand River. K2 and Shaksgam River are China–Pakistan border.
Skyang Kangri
Skyang Kangri (سکیانگ کنگری), or Staircase Peak, is a high mountain peak of the Baltoro Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range. K2 and Skyang Kangri are China–Pakistan border, international mountains of Asia and mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.
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Snow cornice
A snow cornice or simply cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is an overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
Steve Swenson
Steve Swenson (born February 14, 1954) is an American rock climber, mountaineer, and author.
Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.
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Tadeusz Piotrowski (mountaineer)
Tadeusz Piotrowski (January 1, 1940 – July 10, 1986) was a Polish mountaineer and author of several books related to the subject.
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Tarim Basin
The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County (often shortened to Tashkurgan County and officially spelled Taxkorgan) is an autonomous county of Kashgar Prefecture, in western Xinjiang, China. K2 and Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County are Kashgar Prefecture.
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Tenjen Sherpa
Tenjen Sherpa (1987/1988 – 7 October 2023), also known as Tenjen Lama Sherpa, was a Nepalese mountaineer who climbed all 14 eight-thousander together with Kristin Harila in 92 days.
The Express Tribune
The Express Tribune is a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan.
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The Himalayan Club
The Himalayan Club is an organization founded in India in 1928 along the lines of the Alpine Club.
The Himalayan Database
The Himalayan Database: The Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley is a large digital and published record of mountaineering in the Nepalese Himalayas since 1903 (i.e. it does not include the Pakistan Himalaya peaks such as K2 and Nanga Parbat etc.), maintained by Richard Salisbury who digitised the records.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
The Straight Dope
The Straight Dope was a question-and-answer newspaper column written under the pseudonym Cecil Adams.
The Summit (2012 film)
The Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster, directed by Nick Ryan.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
Thomas George Montgomerie
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas George Montgomerie FRS (1830–1878) was a British surveyor who participated in the Great Trigonometric Survey of British India as a lieutenant in the 1850s.
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Tomo Česen
Tomislav "Tomo" Česen (born 5 November 1959) is a Slovenian mountaineer who specializes in solo climbing ascents in the Alps and the Himalayas.
Topographic prominence
In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.
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Trans-Karakoram Tract
The Trans-Karakoram Tract, also known as the Shaksgam Tract (شکسگام|translit. K2 and Trans-Karakoram Tract are Kashgar Prefecture.
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Ultra-prominent peak
An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.
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Upper Mustang
Upper Mustang (formerly Kingdom of Lo) is an upper part (Northern area) of Mustang District, which is located in Nepal.
USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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Vanessa O'Brien
Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien (born 2 December 1964) is a British and American mountaineer, sub-orbital spaceflight participant, explorer, author and former business executive.
Vertical Limit
Vertical Limit is a 2000 American survival thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Robert King, and starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, and Scott Glenn.
Walter Bonatti
Walter Bonatti (22 June 1930 – 13 September 2011) was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist.
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Wanda Rutkiewicz (4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer.
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
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1938 American Karakoram expedition to K2
The 1938 American Karakoram expedition to K2, more properly called the "First American Karakoram expedition", investigated several routes for reaching the summit of K2, an unclimbed mountain at the second highest mountain in the world.
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1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2
The 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 was the unsuccessful second attempt by American mountaineers to climb the then-unclimbed second-highest mountain in the world, K2, following the 1938 reconnaissance expedition.
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1953 American Karakoram expedition
The 1953 American Karakoram expedition was a mountaineering expedition to K2, at 8,611 metres the second highest mountain on Earth.
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1954 Italian expedition to K2
On the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 (led by Ardito Desio), Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit of K2,, the second-highest mountain in the world.
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1954 Italian Karakoram expedition controversy
On 31 July 1954 Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli reached the summit of K2,, for the first time on the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 but for over fifty years the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition controversy dragged on concerning whether the official report written by the expedition's leader, Ardito Desio, gave a true picture of the expedition.
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1986 K2 disaster
The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on the eight-thousander K2, in the Karakoram during a severe storm.
1995 K2 disaster
The 1995 K2 disaster was a mountaineering disaster on K2 in Pakistan, the world's second highest mountain.
2008 K2 disaster
The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth.
See also
China–Pakistan border
- Broad Peak
- Broad Peak Central
- China–Pakistan border
- Chongtar Kangri
- Dafdar
- Gasherbrum I
- Gasherbrum II
- K2
- Kutiah Lungma Glacier
- Mustagh Pass
- Pastore Peak
- Shaksgam River
- Sino-Pakistan Agreement
- Skyang Kangri
- Youyi Bridge
Eight-thousanders of the Karakoram
- Broad Peak
- Broad Peak Central
- Gasherbrum I
- Gasherbrum II
- Italia K2
- K2
- Karl Herrligkoffer
- Mario Puchoz
Highest points of Chinese provinces
- Alto de Coloane
- Altyn-Tagh
- Bukadaban Feng
- Helan Mountains
- Huangmaojian
- Huangshan
- Jiuqu Xi
- K2
- Kawagarbo
- Kitten Mountain
- Kongur Tagh
- Kongur Tiube
- List of Chinese administrative divisions by highest point
- Mount Everest
- Mount Gongga
- Mount Huanggang
- Mount Tai
- Mount Taibai
- Mount Wutai
- Mount Xiaowutai
- Paektu Mountain
- Qilian Mountains
- Shikengkong
- Wuyi Mountains
- Wuzhi Mountain
Kashgar Prefecture
- Aykol
- Küybag District
- K2
- Kargilik County
- Kargilik Town
- Kashgar
- Kashgar Laining International Airport
- Kashgar Prefecture
- Kokyar
- Makit County
- Maralbexi County
- Payzawat County
- Poskam County, Xinjiang
- Seriqbuya
- Shache Yarkant Airport
- Shaptul
- Shufu County
- Shule County
- Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County
- Trans-Karakoram Tract
- Yarkant County
- Yengisar County
- Yopurga County
National symbols of Pakistan
- Cedrus deodara
- Faisal Mosque
- Faith, Unity, Discipline
- Fatima Jinnah
- Flag of Pakistan
- Flags of Pakistan
- Indus river dolphin
- Italia K2
- Jasminum officinale
- K2
- Mangifera indica
- Mango
- Markhor
- Mazar-e-Quaid
- Minar-e-Pakistan
- Mugger crocodile
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Muhammad Iqbal
- National symbols of Pakistan
- Pakistan Monument
- Qaumi Taranah
- Shaheen falcon
- Snow leopard
- Star and crescent
- State emblem of Pakistan
- Tarana-e-Pakistan
- Tor putitora
- Urdu
Seven Second Summits
- Dufourspitze
- Dykh-Tau
- K2
- Monte Rosa
- Mount Kenya
- Mount Logan
- Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains)
- Mount Tyree
- Ojos del Salado
- Puncak Mandala
- Seven Second Summits
Shigar District
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2
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