How close is second place?
How close is second place?
Everest is only about 238 vertical meters higher than K2.
The world's two highest published summit elevations differ by less than a quarter kilometer.
Calculated comparison
How certain is this?
Derived by us from two published summit elevations.
Sources
- Everest summit elevation 8,848.86 m — Survey of Nepal / China
- K2 summit elevation 8,611 m — Government of Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan
Keep going
- Everest in something familiarEverest is about 46 Gateway Arches high.
- What if Everest went underwater?Put Everest into Challenger Deep and its summit would still be about 2.1 km underwater.
- A mountain in pocket changeAbout 5.1 million U.S. quarters stacked flat equal Everest's summit elevation.
- Stack it upAbout 1,045.
- Ball mathA regulation table-tennis ball is 40 mm in diameter and weighs 2.7 grams.
- Measurement trap42.67 mm isn’t “the diameter of a golf ball.”