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 ...

Shah Daulat had previously successfully summited four eight-thousand-meter peaks, including the world’s second-highest peak K2.

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, ...

Becoming the first person to summit K2 in winter, thus, loomed as the last great unachieved feat in mountaineering – “the last first,” as it were. In 2020, Icelander John Snorri set out on that ...