Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain, which boasts a terrifying death rate of more than 20%. Officials had previously planned to triple climbing fees, meaning ...

Two weeks ago, Riccardo Selvatico, a photographer with an Italian-Pakistani expedition on K2 ... faced the mountain. Four years after the accident, some Kazakhstan climbers found a jacket ...

If you want respect, you climb K2," said the climbing coach Alan Arnette, a mountaineer since 1997 who is the oldest American to summit K2. Dubbed the "Savage Mountain," K2 is significantly more ...

She added that her team did not see him wearing gloves or a down jacket ... people died while climbing K2 in August 2008, marking the worst climbing disaster to occur on the mountain, The Guardian ...

K2 (8,611 meters/28,251 feet), or "Chogori," is the world's second highest mountain, after Everest (8,048 meters). Unlike Everest and the eight other highest mountains on Earth, K2 is not located ...

K2 was first surveyed in 1856 by Colonel T.G. Montgomerie, who named it as the second peak (K2) in the Karakoram range. The mountain's name ... improved climbing techniques, and better weather ...

Harila, 37, reached the summit of Pakistan’s K2 on ... any mountain in their way. “I hope we can use this project to change how the industry and the community looks at women climbing ...

They were climbing with no fixed ropes on the perilous West Face. The most common route on K2 is the Abruzzi Spur, named after the Duke of Abruzzi who attempted the climb in 1909. The west face of ...