Climbers attempting the world's second tallest mountain were due to fork out $5,000 each under a planned price increase ...

"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the ...

The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto Zerain at 3 p.m., who was hiking solo. In the film, Norwegian climber Lars Nessa describes Zerain as a "mythic figure." Zerain seems to ...

Steindl also said that July 27 was the only day in this season on which conditions were good enough for mountaineers to reach the summit of K2, which explains why there were so many climbers eager ...

Christian Stangl, the Austrian alpinist who had claimed the only K2 ascent in this pre-monsoon season, admitted yesterday to not having reached the summit, as had been contested by a part of the ...

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she has become the first woman in the world to climb all fourteen 8000m peaks without the use of ...

That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours. You know, when I'm looking at that 24-hour window, knowing that we're coming down at night, you know, that was 23-hours.

Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and avalanche prone, with far fewer successful summit attempts than on Mount Everest. Hiraide is a three-time winner of the Piolets d'Or, an annual award ...

A 10-member team of Nepali Climbers become the first mountaineers to reach the summit of world's second highest peak K-2. K2 is among the last of the fourteen, 8,000-meter peaks that were not summited ...