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

I always thought Nanga Parbat was more deadly than Kanchenjunga.

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.

The real russian roulette...