The fourteen highest mountains in the world are all located in the Himalayan and Karakorum mountain ranges, and all exceed ...

He was one of 11 climbers who died in one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history when an ice fall swept away fixed ropes on the peak in Pakistan. K2, known as the Savage Mountain ...

Left out to freeze on K2 K2 climber aborts solo winter ascent Irish climbers conquer peak within 24 hours of each other The Nepali climbers were initially spread across three of four competing ...

Polish mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel became the first person to ever successfully ski down K2, the second highest peak in the world, in July. Located in the Karakoram mountains in Pakistan ...

Mr Smith told MailOnline: 'Everest is 250m taller than K2, the world’s second highest peak, but K2 and the other peaks are ...

Rescue efforts have been called off for two famed Japanese mountain climbers and photographers who fell from K2, the world’s second-highest peak, in Pakistan. Ishii Sports Co., which Kazuya ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but ... describes ascending an unclimbed route on an 8,000-meter peak as “unimaginably difficult.” “The body’s functions ...

The news is just in: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has reached the summit of K2. The Austrian mountaineer stood on top of the 8611m peak at 18:18 local Pakistan time, and shortly afterwards she was joined by ...