He had been attempting to summit K2 without oxygen but became severely fatigued, forcing him to abandon the expedition. Rhys Fitzgerald got to the top of one Himalayan mountain as a warm-up for ...

K2 is known as the ‘Savage Mountain’ and is the deadliest mountain in the world; approximately one person dies on the ...

"Because of the strong winds the mountain ... the summit around mid-February. Alex Gavan This view from the peak of Gashebrum2 (8035m) looks out towards Broad Peak (8047m) and beyond it K2 As ...

Already on their summit push, the climbers decided ... hadn’t even known her husband planned to climb K2, thinking he was ...

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 ...

A Polish man has become the first person to ski from the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world and the most difficult to climb. One in four people die attempting to summit the 28 ...

Christian Stangl, the Austrian alpinist who had claimed the only K2 ascent in this pre-monsoon season, admitted yesterday to not having reached the summit, as had been contested by a part of the ...

Hiraide’s video footage captures not just the joys of an ascent to the summit ... conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide said he felt overwhelmed by the compelling power of the mountain when ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp this year, and they didn't really care about the summit. Or rather ... apparently not ...

At the time of their fall from K2, they were attempting to be the first to scale the mountain from its west face, considered the most difficult route to the summit.

Anything over that, you really risk heading to a memorial at the bottom of the mountain. That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours. You know, when I'm looking ...