Climbers attempting the world's second tallest mountain were due to fork out $5,000 each under a planned price increase ...

"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the ...

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 ...

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.

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp this year ... Manel De La Matta has gone forever, due to an "illness apparently not ...

Anything over that, you really risk heading to a memorial at the bottom of the mountain. That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours. You know, when I'm looking ...

Vanessa O'Brien, the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent and the first American and British woman to climb the second-highest mountain in the world, explains why K2 is a ...

With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman in the world to have climbed ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the ...