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 ...

All of the tallest mountains in the world are located in Asia, either in the Himalayas or the Karakorum ranges. Of the 10 ...

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 Chhogori. Located in the Karakoram ...

A Pakistani mountaineer has died after an avalanche struck near Camp 1 on K2, Pakistan’s highest peak, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said in a statement on Saturday.According ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of the Karakorum and Himalayas ...

GILGIT-BALTISTAN, (ANI) - K2, the second-highest mountain on the planet after Mount Everest, has become a 'garbage mountain' as a mound of trash has piled up, raising environmental concerns.

K2 is the world’s second highest mountain, and is just 200 metres shorter than Mount Everest. Often called the “savage mountain”, K2 stands at 8,611 metres whereas Everest measures 8,849 ...

It’s not often that a team of climbers attempts K2, the “Savage Mountain,” in winter. Before this season, the world’s second-highest mountain, first climbed in 1954, had been tried only ...

And while few have summited K2, many have perished in attempting the climb. The mountain has claimed 77 lives, giving it the second-highest fatality rate among mountains over 8,000 m, behind only ...