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

K2 has often flashed its savage side. One of the most famous disasters came in the summer of 1995. We examine the 1995 K2 disaster in part two of a series.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Hiraide buried a portrait of a smiling Taniguchi in the snow at the summit. In July 2019 ... Talking about his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide said he felt overwhelmed ...

"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 ...