Officials had previously planned to triple climbing fees, meaning climbers attempting to summit K2 would have to pay an eye-watering $5,000 each, on top of equipment, guide, and travel costs.

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 ...

The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation from a helicopter ... No helicopter could land on the site near the two climbers, and it was impossible to approach from the ...

On the morning of August 14, after a terrifying night, Garces and Ortas woke to a bright, clear sky over K2. The two climbers looked at the upper section of the mountain, hoping to see the six ...

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 ...

Pakistani military helicopters continued to search for three missing climbers on the world’s second highest mountain K2 on February 8, as hope of their survival faded rapidly. Muhammad Ali ...

In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on K2. Over 2 disastrous days, 11 of those people would lose their lives. This is the story of what really happened. Sitting on the border between China and ...

A 10-member team of Nepali Climbers become the first mountaineers to reach the summit of world's second highest peak K-2. K2 is among the last of the fourteen, 8,000-meter peaks that were not summited ...

Ger McDonnell (the first Irishman to summit K2), and Pemba Gyalje, reached the top around 7 p.m. They were joined by Italian climber Marco Confortola. A total of 18 climbers summited that day ...

Thirty years ago Julie Tullis became the first British woman to reach the summit of the Himalayan mountain K2, the second highest ... of the most challenging for climbers. As Julie descended ...