He was one of 11 climbers who died in one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history when an ice fall swept away fixed ropes on the peak in Pakistan. K2, known as the Savage Mountain ...

There’s also the case that the terrain is much more difficult, which means that climbers are ‘constantly bouncing from ...

It is the only mountain above 8,000m - of which there ... can be 200km/h (125 mph)," says Lunger. She reached the peak of K2 in the summer of 2014, becoming only the second Italian woman in ...

Rescue efforts have been called off for two famed Japanese mountain climbers and photographers who fell from K2, the world’s second-highest peak, in Pakistan. Ishii Sports Co., which Kazuya ...

One in four people die attempting to summit the 28,251ft (8,611 metre) peak ... world’s tallest mountain at 8,848 m (29,029 ft) - less than 350 people have stood on K2’s peak since it was ...

SKARDU - French mountaineer Benjamin Vedrines counted every second as he made history's fastest-ever ascent of K2, but says he doesn't add up the growing number of records to his name. "It's not ...

They were trying to scale the peak in Pakistan using minimal ... "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers have tried and failed to scale K2. Kiyoshi Furuno, the former president ...

Sultana Nasab, a trailblazing mountaineer from Pakistan, has etched her name in history with an extraordinary feat—scaling K2 ...

The news is just in: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has reached the summit of K2. The Austrian mountaineer stood on top of the 8611m peak at 18:18 local Pakistan time ... To reach the top of the second ...

K2, the second-tallest mountain on Earth ... This trek feels like a pilgrimage for a peak, and here it is, in front of us. As I marvel, a Korean trekker pulls out his phone, and another begins ...