Mountaineers have been paying tribute to two experienced climbers who are missing on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, are two of Japan’s ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

Noel Hanna, from Dromore, County Down, is the first climber from Northern Ireland to conquer K2 K2 has been climbed by two mountaineers from the island of Ireland in separate expeditions just 24 ...

Climbers' harebrained endeavors to make risky first winter ascents of K2 were rife with ego and tragedy, as well as intrigue and triumph. It's New Year's Eve, 2020, at K2 base camp, a tent ...

Rescue efforts have been called off for two famed Japanese mountain climbers and photographers who fell from K2, the world’s second-highest peak, in Pakistan. Ishii Sports Co., which Kazuya ...

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on ...

As Nepal celebrated the third anniversary of the first winter ascent of K2, Manaslu and Annapurna climbers are going home.

When a climber falls or wanders off the trail, it's an unwritten code of the mountain to leave them for dead, according to the film. The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto ...

Towering 8,611m and reaching into the heavens like a snowcapped pyramid, K2 is the world's second-tallest mountain (topped only by Everest) and arguably the hardest to climb. In Peak Danger ...

The four Siberians came to K2 in the summer of 2006 to climb the Abruzzi Route. The so-called Kuzbass Expedition — named ...

Gilgit: The Gilgit-Baltistan government has announced an increase in permit fees for climbers aiming to scale K2, the world’s second-highest peak, as part of its efforts to streamline ...