"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 ...

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she has become the first woman in the world to climb all fourteen 8000m peaks without the use of ...

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 ...

Steindl also said that July 27 was the only day in this season on which conditions were good enough for mountaineers to reach the summit of K2, which explains why there were so many climbers eager ...

Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and avalanche prone, with far fewer successful summit attempts than on Mount Everest. Hiraide is a three-time winner of the Piolets d'Or, an annual award ...

A 10-member team of Nepali Climbers become the first mountaineers to reach the summit of world's second highest peak K-2. K2 is among the last of the fourteen, 8,000-meter peaks that were not summited ...

That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours. You know, when I'm looking at that 24-hour window, knowing that we're coming down at night, you know, that was 23-hours.

Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Hassan has died during an attempt to summit K2. Muhammad Hassan, who was from the district Shigar of Gilgit-Baltistan, died when the huge avalanche hit him near the ...