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 ...

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

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

We examine the mountaineering career of the Duke of Abruzzi, who was born on this day in 1873. The energetic royal was ...

He has a lot on his mind these days. After losing his longtime climbing partner in an accident in Hokkaido in 2015, Hiraide is now plotting to conquer K2, the world’s second highest peak ...

The list of globally recognised eight-thousanders in Nepal includes Everest (8,848.86 metres), Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), ...

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 ...

Two Japanese climbers have gone missing while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest peak. According to reports, the two mountaineers slipped and fell on the 8,611-meter-high ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp this year, and they didn't really care about the summit. Or rather, they weren't there ...

Last August the body of the famous italian mountaineer Renato Casarotto was found in the De Filippi glacier, K2. We received the following letter from the editor of the Italian climbing magazine ...

DUBAI, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, January 31, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Naila Kiani, a UAE-based Pakistani mountaineer and endurance athlete, ...