Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

K2, located in the Karakorum mountain range, is one of the most dangerous climbs. Last month, team of 10 Nepalese climbers made history by scaling the K2 for the first time in winter.

When a climber falls or wanders off the trail, it's an unwritten code of the mountain to leave them for dead, according to the film. The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto ...

When he visited the Karakoram Range in northern ... latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide said he felt overwhelmed by the compelling power of the mountain when he went on a ...

The second-highest mountain at 28,251 feet (8,611 metres), K2 is situated in the Karakoram range. Known for its extreme difficulty, it’s considered a more dangerous climb than Everest.

The mountain range has average elevations that exceed 4000 metres, and is home to nine of the ten highest mountains in the world, including K2 and Mount Everest. The railway line will be ...

Ms Revol and Tomasz Mackiewicz were climbing Nanga Parbat, nicknamed "Killer Mountain", when they got stuck at 7,400m (24,280ft) on Friday. An elite Polish climbing team on nearby K2 came to the ...