High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video ...

Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August. That would become the mountain's first August summits since 2011, ...

K2 is considered the most dangerous mountain on Earth, not because of its height, but because of how unforgiving it is.

The climbers who summited K2 yesterday are now carefully descending the mountain. As the trackers of several climbers indicate, each team is following a different pace. The Imagine Nepal and Alpinist ...

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 ...

Pakistani women are hiking some of the world's tallest mountains and glacier trails, claiming a space that has long been out ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A team of climbers from Nepal on Saturday become the first mountaineers to successfully complete a winter attempt on the summit of K2, the world's second tallest peak. The group ...