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 ...

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 ...

A new Sundance film called “The Summit” explores the psychology behind what happened on the deadliest day on K2, known as the world’s most dangerous mountain. On August 1, 2008, 25 climbers set out to ...

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 ...