Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August ...

Apple Original Films has landed global rights to “The Last First: Winter K2,” a sports documentary that recently premiered at ...

By January 2005, all the world’s tallest mountains – the 14 peaks that stretch above 8,000 meters – had been summited in wintertime, the most dangerous time of year for climbing. All except for one, ...

Which mountain is called the Savage Mountain? Discover why K2 earned this dangerous title, its extreme weather conditions, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past decade, the mountain-climbing documentary has become a genre unto itself. Spectacular movies like “Free Solo,” “The ...

Eleven climbers died on Pakistan's K2 mountain after an ice avalanche knocked down a fixed rope climbers were using to reach the summit, a mountaineer at their base camp said Sunday. Among the dead ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a ...

Mt. Everest is the world's tallest peak. But some mountaineers, like Garrett Madison, say it isn't the hardest to climb. Hundreds of people summit Mt. Everest each year, and you don't need to be an ...

Amir Bar-Lev directs the doc about the "last great prize in mountaineering," which has killed several climbers.

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...