Nanga Parbat is notorious for being an extremely difficult climb, and has earned the nickname Killer Mountain for its high number of climber fatalities and pushing climbers to the test of their limits.
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It was George Bell, a climber on the 1953 American Expedition, named K2 as the Savage Mountain after its deadly nature, when he almost slipped from the climb. It is said that out of every four mountaineers who climb the mountain, one person dies.
When looking at the 14 highest mountains above sea level worldwide, Annapurna I and K2 were the mountains with highest summit to death ratio, at 27.2 percent and 22.8 percent, respectively, as of May 2023.
The mountain most widely claimed to be the highest unclimbed mountain in the world in terms of elevation is Gangkhar Puensum (7,570 m, 24,840 ft). It is in Bhutan, on or near the border with China. In Bhutan, the climbing of mountains higher than 6,000 m (20,000 ft) has been prohibited since 1994.
According to the Himalayan database, at least 322 people have perished on Mount Everest since records began in 1922, averaging out to about 4.4 deaths per year and that number slowly ticks up each year. The first summit of the mountain was in 1953.
The mountain has claimed over 300 climbers in recent history, and about two-thirds of that number remain on the mountain. The current estimate of remains left behind on Everest total around 200.
While gear lists and physical training are similar for climbing both peaks, K2 is widely considered a more technically challenging and dangerous mountain to climb than Everest.