The Nepali climbers are the first to summit K2 during its dangerous winter season A team of 10 Nepali climbers has set a new world record by becoming the first to reach the summit of K2 ...

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...

The veteran climbers were hoping to conquer K2's jagged Western face. This side of the mountain has only been successfully scaled once in 2007, by a team of Russian climbers.

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 ...

Everest. K2. Denali. All formidable peaks, but none of them bear the title of ‘World’s Most Deadly Mountain.’ Though climbers ...

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 ...

NHK World reports on the elite mountaineers, who often risked life and limb to open new climbing routes to perilous peaks.

He has a lot on his mind these days. After losing his longtime climbing partner in an accident in Hokkaido in 2015, Hiraide is now plotting to conquer K2, the world’s second highest peak ...

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 ...