The climbing season in the Himalayas continues, with high-altitude expeditions taking on K2 and other 8,000-meter peaks in the Karakoram. After a successful spring season on Mount Everest, Lhotse, and ...

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, ...

"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 first ...

Everest might be the world’s tallest mountain but talk to any mountaineer who has climbed both, and it’ll be K2, the second highest peak on the planet, that makes them go misty-eyed. This staggering ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An Italian who survived an avalanche that killed fellow climbers on the world's second-highest peak said Wednesday poor equipment and a mistake by a porter contributed to the ...

New footage and details from 2008 disaster in which 29 went up and 18 came down. Aug. 10, 2010 — -- It was the worst day on the world's deadliest mountain, Aug. 1, 2008. Twenty-nine climbers ...

The world's 12th-highest peak, 8,051m Broad Peak is located in the Karakoram on the border between Pakistan and China. The mountain's name comes from its broad summit ridge, which spans nearly 1.5km ...