High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video ...

It's now or...another year. The remaining climbers on K2 are on the go toward the summit, hoping their patience will pay off. The Sherpa and Pakistani climbers led the march to Camp 1 today, while ...

Four French climbers summited K2 without oxygen on July 28, including Benjamin Vedrines in a record 11 hours. Since then, they’ve been surprisingly tight-lipped about how they went down. Finally, the ...

GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — A rescue team from Pakistan and Nepal has retrieved the body of a Chinese climber who was killed on K2, the world’s second-highest peak in northern Pakistan, a regional ...

Pakistani women are hiking some of the world's tallest mountains and glacier trails, claiming a space that has long been out ...

A Russian-Polish mountaineer has launched the first solo attempt to summit Pakistans K2 -- the worlds second-highest park -- during winter, in what fellow climbers described as a reckless decision.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appeared to be the first from their countries to scale K2 on Friday, the world’s second-highest mountain and one of the most dangerous ...