[sh87]

counting people who have tried and failed to summit K2 vs space travel is (to me) a better quantification.

[x3iv130f]

23-29% of the climbers who try K2 die in the attempt.

It is at the very least an order of magnitude more dangerous than space flight.

[Syzygies]

This "Fatality Rate" compares successful summits and returns to those who die trying. Worded this way, it's a tricky number to pin down. You could be with a group that never planned to choose you as part of the smaller summit party, and still die on the mountain. But it's far from true that a quarter of people who visit the mountain die.

[actuator]

Just to add, Annapurna is the deadliest 8000er. With Kanchenjunga, K2 in second depending on where you get stats from.

[whereistimbo]

The real russian roulette...