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 The summit of K2 is a dream for almost every mountaineer across the world.
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 Beautiful 🤩 
 Hill looks hard. 
 It's the second-highest mountain, & it's the hardest one to climb. 
 Yup. Looks gorgeous, brutal, and as if it’d kill me if I tried. Kinda makes me wanna make a go for it ngl 🤣 
 Is it the mountain, or its myth? Which do you feel brings humans to its base? 
 I can confirm it's real, it's approx 300 km away from my hometown. This entire Karakoram mountain Range is something else, there is nothing else like it in the entire world. 
 Sorry I was obtuse. I meant why do you think K2 stands out as a mountain of notoriety, do you think its difficulty is the only reason?

Or have mountaineers told one too many stories in base camp about it and now its lore brings climber to “conquer” it