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 ...

mountain this winter hoping to achieve the same feat. But one Spanish mountaineer has died after suffering a fall this weekend while descending. K2, which is only 200m shorter than Everest ...

K2, the second-tallest mountain on Earth, is the poster child of the Karakoram range, which was thrown up millions of years ago when the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates smashed together.

In July 2019, he stood atop Mount Rakaposhi, also in the Karakoram Range, with Nakajima, after opening a new route on its south face. Talking about his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route ...

Acute mountain sickness, with symptoms of dizziness, vomiting and headaches, has also caused deaths. While the risks are clear, Alan Arnette, a professional mountaineer who counts Everest and K2 ...

Alyona Kuznetsova hadn’t even known her husband planned to climb K2, thinking he was only scouting the mountain. Kuznetsov ...

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 ...

Mount Kanchenjunga is seen from Siliguri. Kanchenjunga is the world's third highest mountain at 8169 feet) after Mount ...

Vanessa O'Brien, the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent and the first American and British woman to climb the second-highest mountain in the world, explains why K2 is a ...