In 1992, high on K2, French climber Chantal Mauduit was exhausted and snowblind. Over the next two days, several climbers ...

56-year-old Irish mountain climber Noel Hanna ... the first person from Ireland to successfully summit and descend K2. Many hiking companies are paying tribute to Hanna, including Mourne Mountain ...

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 ...

According to climber and guide Adrian Ballinger, whose team followed Purja’s team up K2 for the first summits of the season, summiting the 14 tallest peaks in the world in just six months meant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...