Claim: K2 is 1000 meters less high than Mount Everest.
Evidence: K2 -LRB- -LSB- -RRB- , also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori -LRB- Balti and -LSB- -RRB- , is the second highest mountain in the world , after Mount Everest , at 8611 m above sea level.
Its peak is 8848 m above sea level.