This picture of Alex Gavan in July 2019 shows K2 in the background Two European mountaineers embark this week on a bitterly cold, week-long trek to reach base camp on the world's second highest ...

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 ...

22 concluded that two representatives of the company died after slipping and falling for more than a kilometer on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Ishii Sports expressed “condolences ...

Thirty years ago Julie Tullis became the first British woman to reach the summit of the Himalayan mountain K2, the second highest mountain in the world and one of the most challenging for climbers.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Askole sits in the region of Baltistan: home to five of the world’s 14 peaks above 8,000 metres and more than 100 surpassing ...

This video captures the jaw-dropping moment when Musa's K2 expedition turned into a lifelong memory. "A big avalanche slid ...

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 ...

With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman in the world to have climbed ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the ...