It's now or...another year. The remaining climbers on K2 are on the go toward the summit, hoping their patience will pay off. The Sherpa and Pakistani climbers led the march to Camp 1 today, while ...

Serge Hardy didn't call off his attempt on K2 as earlier news from the mountain suggested. He turned to supplementary oxygen from the Bottleneck onward and summited on August 12, one day after the ...

GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — A rescue team from Pakistan and Nepal has retrieved the body of a Chinese climber who was killed on K2, the world’s second-highest peak in northern Pakistan, a regional ...

The highest place on Earth is not necessarily the one most people picture when they imagine standing closest to the stars.

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

“The Last First: Winter K2” was the first screening of the Sundance Film Festival. The director, Amir Bar-Lev, described it ...

A fatal attempt to ascend K2 in winter 2020-2021 is documented in the Sundance film 'The Last First: Winter K2,' directed by Amir Bar-Lev.

French climber Benjamin Vedrines (left) returns to Hushe village in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region after he summited K2, the world's second-highest mountain, in ...

High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video from Mountain Disasters revisits the July 28, 2019, tragedy on K2, where a ...

Winter K2 review - mountaineers compete with veteran climbers and inexperienced tourists to land an historic winter ascent at K2.

K2 is the second-tallest mountain in the world, and it’s the second-most dangerous mountain to climb as well. The mountain, which straddles the border of Pakistan and China, is 28,251 feet tall and ...