The Nepali climbers are the first to summit K2 during its dangerous winter season A team of 10 Nepali climbers has set a new world record by becoming the first to reach the summit of K2 ...

The veteran climbers were hoping to conquer K2's jagged Western face. This side of the mountain has only been successfully scaled once in 2007, by a team of Russian climbers.

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 ...

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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 ...

Noel Hanna, from Dromore, County Down, is the first climber from Northern Ireland to conquer K2 K2 has been climbed by two mountaineers from the island of Ireland in separate expeditions just 24 ...

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 ...

French climber Benjamin Vedrines summited Pakistan's K2 in record time on Sunday, his team told AFP, reaching the top of the world's second-highest mountain in just under 11 hours. The 32-year-old ...

Towering over the Karakoram range, K2 is the second-tallest peak on Earth — but also considered the planet's hardest mountain to climb. Its summit is 28,251 feet, or 8,611 meters, above sea ...

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 ...