The ‘savage’ K2 has claimed at least 77 lives so far National The K2 mountain. LAHORE: Yet another aerial reconnaissance launched by two Pakistan Army helicopters at an altitude of 7,800 metres late Sunday evening, atop the world's second-highest mountain, K2, to locate the three missing climbers -- Pakistan's Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri from Iceland and MP Mohr from Chile -- was finally suspended as hopes to find the ill-fated mountaineers had diminished. The three climbers had gone missing while attempting to summit K2, nicknamed the “Savage Mountain,” which has a peak elevation of 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), and is part of the Karakoram Range, not far from the Himalayas.