If you’re keen to visit the iconic Karakoram mountain range, now might be the time, as Pakistan officials have delayed a move to triple climbing fees until at least 2026. The towering Karakoram ...

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 ...

Also known as the "Savage Mountain," K2 is generally considered among the most difficult of the world's 8,000ers, and its death rate was historically one of the highest of all 14 mountains, along ...

A mountaineer has denied allegations that she climbed over and failed to assist a dying Sherpa during her record-breaking climb up the Himalayan mountain K2 on the Pakistan-China border. Norwegian ...

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 ...

Kristin Harila conquered Everest, K2 and 12 other peaks above 8,000m in a non-stop expedition in three countries in half the time of the previous record-holder.

K2 MOUNTAIN is earth's second-highest mountain, is notoriously difficult - and sometimes deadly - to climb. So where is it, and how did it get its name? Here's all you need to know. K2 is part of ...

K2 K2 stands 28,251 ft. making it the second highest mountain in the world, just 778 ft. shorter than Mt. Everest. K2 is also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, or C ...