Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain, which boasts a terrifying death rate of more than 20%. Officials had previously planned to triple climbing fees, meaning ...

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 ...

Annapurna, the 10th highest mountain in the world, has been challenging to early expeditions due to broad crevasses and icy ...

It cannot be put down to chance that extremely experienced mountaineers such as Romano Benet and Nives Meroi needed 12 years to climb K2 (even if three attempts were from the north), while Hans ...

In 1992, high on K2, French climber Chantal Mauduit was exhausted and snowblind. Over the next two days, several climbers ...

Ger McDonnell (the first Irishman to summit K2), and Pemba Gyalje, reached the top around 7 p.m. They were joined by Italian climber Marco Confortola. A total of 18 climbers summited that day ...

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 ...

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 ...

After getting a special permit to climb the peak, Purja’s team endured 75-kilometer-per-hour winds and an avalanche on the way to Camp 1. His team also broke trail and set the ropes on K2 ...

Mountaineer Samina Baig has become first Pakistani woman to successfully climb the world's second highest peak K2. Samina Baig and her Pakistani team successfully summited the savage peak of K2 at ...