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It says on the wikipedia that Mt. K2 is a part of Pakistan, wherein it is actually a part of India. Even from ages it has always been a part of India Shadedhruva (talk) 08:28, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done The sources used in the article explain that K2 is located in territory administered by Pakistan. --bonadea contributions talk 08:40, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

K2 belongs to Indian territory in pok Sparrowkhaufff (talk) 20:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting info: Death rate

2nd paragraph states "K2 is the deadliest; approximately one person dies on the mountain for every four who reach the summit."

However, the next paragraph states 96 deaths and 800 summits. This would be closer to one in eight. Rlchv70 (talk) 16:36, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was just going to point this out, too. Looking at the edit history, it seems like the issue is that the sources are from different dates: some time recently, someone or other changed the figures citing a source titled "Is K2, the "Savage Mountain," Becoming Less Savage?", which says a spate of successful attempts occurred recently. One way of cleaning things up would be to move the two mentions of the death rate to be in the same paragraph and clarify with dates: "Prior to YEAR, approximately one person died on the mountain for every four who reached the summit. After an increase in successful attempts, as of 2023 an estimated 800 people have summited the mountain and 96 have died." -sche (talk) 16:54, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What does everyone think of this, with dates (qualifying the death rates) from the Less Savage source? -sche (talk) 17:02, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tommaso Lamantia summits K2, his first 8000er

On 28 July 2024, Italian mountaineer Tommaso Lamantia summited K2. The 42-year-old mountaineer, who is member of the CAI Biella expedition, climbed alone and without supplementary oxygen, see also this link Brill58 (talk) 18:06, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]