Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past decade, the mountain-climbing documentary has become a genre unto itself. Spectacular movies like “Free Solo,” “The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August ...

The jet stream continues to hit the upper slopes of K2, and supplies are beginning to run low, but a dogged group of climbers still waits for their chance to dash to the summit. So far, no one has ...

A lifestyle full of suffering isn’t something most people seek, but it is now a weekly regimen for University senior Bob Pool, who is hoping to become the youngest person to ever reach the summit of ...

"The Last First: Winter K2" is a rare documentary that chronicles the impossible - climbing K2 in the dead of winter, when the weather is the most treacherous and punishing. The latest documentary ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a ...

At 8,611m, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world. It has a notorious reputation for being the "savage mountain". More people have died on the slopes of Mount Everest but by ratio of number of ...

French climber Benjamin Vedrines (left) returns to Hushe village in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region after he summited K2, the world's second-highest mountain, in ...

A new Sundance film called “The Summit” explores the psychology behind what happened on the deadliest day on K2, known as the world’s most dangerous mountain. On August 1, 2008, 25 climbers set out to ...

Climbers recovered the body of a Pakistani porter from K2 mountain, a climbing federation confirmed Tuesday, a year after he died while other climbers made a record-breaking ascent. The Barron's news ...