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 ...

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 ...

Harila said conditions were especially brutal on K2, the world’s second highest mountain, which is widely considered by climbers to be the most technically challenging peak in the world.

She summited K2 in 2017 after two earlier attempts, described in her recent autobiography, “To the Greatest Heights: Facing Danger, Finding Humility, and Climbing a Mountain of Truth.” ...

Compared to the more than 4,000 people that have climbed Mount Everest -- the world's tallest mountain at 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) -- only 350 people had stood on K2's peak as of 2018 since it ...

Naperville’s Lucy Westlake is on a mission to break another mountain climbing record this summer — and maybe change the world as well. The 19-year-old said in an email this week that she plans ...

After reaching K2’s summit in winter, the first all-Nepali team to claim an 8,000-meter climbing record celebrates at Base Camp. “We did it for Nepal,” Nirmal “Nims” Purja says.

K2, often nicknamed "The Savage Mountain," is so treacherous that, as of August 2022, approximately 700 people have reached the summit, Climbing magazine reports. So far, at least 91 people have ...

Female mountain climbers face more obstacles than men when climbing the Himalayan mountain K2, but they choose to do so anyway for the thrill it provides, according to Jennifer Jordan, a journalist ...