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 in ...

On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 as a man lay dying in their path. Footage from the mountain would later shock the world when it showed climbers walking past him. But Insider's ...

The climbing season in the Himalayas continues, with high-altitude expeditions taking on K2 and other 8,000-meter peaks in the Karakoram. After a successful spring season on Mount Everest, Lhotse, and ...

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Garrett Madison, the founder and lead guide of Madison Mountaineering, just gave an update on the K2 climbing team. The climbers are making steady progress on their summit push on the second highest ...

Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja looks on after arriving in Tribhuvan airport in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on October 30, 2019. - A Nepali mountaineer on October 29 smashed the speed record for ...

ISLAMABAD - An investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world's most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following allegations ...

The foundation of elite mountain climber Nirmal Purja has announced it is bringing a team to Pakistan's K2 next year to clean up "rotting food and human waste" that is "frozen into the ice and ...

A Norwegian mountaineer has denied allegations that members of her climbing team walked over a dying porter and did nothing to help him during their record-breaking ascent of K2 in Pakistan last month ...

Spanish mountaineer Sergi Mingote has died while climbing K2, the world’s second highest summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday. “Sad death of Sergi Mingote at K2,” Sanchez ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appeared to be the first from their countries to scale K2 on Friday, the world’s second-highest mountain and one of the most dangerous ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appear to be the first females from their countries to reach the top of K2, one of the world’s highest and most dangerous summits, a ...