Climbers attempting the world's second tallest mountain were due to fork out $5,000 each under a planned price increase ...

K2 has often flashed its savage side. One of the most famous disasters came in the summer of 1995. We examine the 1995 K2 disaster in part two of a series.

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 ...

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...

Here's some good news for climbers planning to visit the Karakoram this year. Pakistan's threat to triple permit prices is on ...

Vanessa O'Brien, the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent and the first American and British woman to climb the second-highest mountain in the world, explains why K2 is a ...

He will become the first South African to reach the summit of the Annapurna, which should be between April 20 and 25, weather permitting.

Kuok Meng Wei, whose grandfather was once called the world’s shrewdest businessman by Forbes, is leading his family into what ...

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, an Austrian-born mountaineer, became the first woman to climb the world’s 14 highest peaks without the help of oxygen or porters.

In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on K2. Over 2 disastrous days, 11 of those people would lose their lives. This is the story of what really happened. Sitting on the border between China and ...

K2 and Nanga Parbat follow with one death for every four summiteers, and Dhaulagiri and Kangchenjunga account for one death for every six successful climbers. Mount Everest (8,848m / 29,029 feet ...