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

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...

Polish climbers who were hoping to be the first to climb the world's second-highest peak in winter have been forced to cancel. Heavy snow damaged camps and equipment on K2, a peak that only around ...

Mountaineers have been paying tribute to two experienced climbers who are missing on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, are two of Japan’s ...

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on ...

Climbers' harebrained endeavors to make risky first winter ascents of K2 were rife with ego and tragedy, as well as intrigue and triumph. It's New Year's Eve, 2020, at K2 base camp, a tent ...

Towering 8,611m and reaching into the heavens like a snowcapped pyramid, K2 is the world's second-tallest mountain (topped only by Everest) and arguably the hardest to climb. In Peak Danger ...

Climbers' harebrained endeavors to make risky first winter ascents of K2 were rife with ego and tragedy, as well as intrigue and triumph. It's New Year's Eve, 2020, at K2 base camp, a tent ...

Despite feeling dispirited, Fahad worked again on himself and resolved to climb K2, which is considered one of the most dangerous mountains to climb. On July 27, he reached the K2 summit.

That carefree motto–“I thought I would give it a shot”–has served Hyman well in his 21 years of life. His knack for adventure ...

Both of them had items with the BASK logo.” The four Siberians came to K2 in the summer of 2006 to climb the Abruzzi Route.