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K2 is known as the Savage Mountain after George Bell, a climber on the 1953 American Expedition, told reporters "It's a savage mountain that tries to kill you."[5] Of the five highest mountains in the world, K2 is the deadliest; approximately one person dies on the mountain for every four who reach the summit.[5][6] Also occasionally known as Chhogori, or Mount Godwin-Austen,[7] other nicknames for K2 are The King of Mountains and The Mountaineers' Mountain,[8] as well as The Mountain of Mountains after climber Reinhold Messner titled his book about K2 the same.[9]
The summit was reached for the first time by the Italian climbers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni, on the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition led by Ardito Desio. In January 2021, K2 became the final eight-thousander to be summited in the winter, by a team of Nepalese climbers led by Nirmal Purja and Mingma Gyalje Sherpa.[10][11]
K2 is the only eight-thousand metre peak that has never been climbed from its eastern face.[12] Ascents have almost always been made in July and August, the warmest times of the year; K2's more northern location makes it more susceptible to inclement and colder weather.[13] The peak has now been climbed by almost all of its ridges. Although the summit of Everest is at a higher altitude, K2 is a more difficult and dangerous climb, due in part to its more inclement weather.[14] As of June 2018, only 367 people have completed the ascent.[5] There have been 86 deaths during attempted climbs, according to the list maintained on the list of deaths on eight-thousanders.