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.

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 ...

"Based on a deep analysis of the situation in agreement with the team I decided today to end the mountain action on K2," Mr Wielicki wrote. "The priority of the expedition is the safety of its ...

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 ...

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.

as famously proved by Walter Bonatti’s epic on K2 in 1954 or by Doug Scott and Dougal Haston’s forced bivouac during the 1975 British Mountain Everest Southwest Face expedition. It's well ...

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 ...

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 ...

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