A Japanese equipment supplier on Aug. 22 concluded that two representatives of the company died after ... the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high ...

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

Alison Hargreaves would have turned 63. She had already become one of the best climbers of her generation when she died at ...

Climbers' harebrained endeavors to make risky first winter ascents of K2 were rife with ego and tragedy ... each of which rises into the so-called “death zone,” above 26,267 feet.

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest ... and just being there brings you close to death,” he said. Climbing an unexplored route, he added, “requires high-level judgement ...

K2 and Everest. If you have ambitions to climb above 8,000 meters, you’ll have to grapple with the death zone. On Shishapagma or Gasherbrum II, your acquaintance with the death zone would be rel ...

Vanessa O'Brien: 26,000 feet or 8,000 meters, they do call the "death zone." The death zone ... So when you are climbing there, even if you are on oxygen, oxygen is not like oxygen in a hospital.

“I want people to climb their own mountains in their ... But backing up… you said you had a near-death experience? On [K2], my team had left me the day before we were supposed to go to base ...