K2

K2 stands 8,611 metres above the sea, in the Karakoram of Pakistan / China: the 2nd highest of the 56 summits in this index. Its nearest neighbour here is Nanga Parbat, 188 km to the west.

Topography draws it the way it draws everything: contour lines every 50 metres, coloured from teal valleys to a gold summit, with water, borders and names, and nothing else. No satellite imagery, no shaded relief, no zoom slider. A handful of fixed scales, and the lines.

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