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

Scott Fischer was there with his expedition, and the group scoured the summit area of K2 with a telescope. But they didn't spot anything. From the Broad Peak Base Camp, Hillary then relayed the ...

Numerous successful K2 summits were registered on the 26th of July, sixty years after the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world carried out by the historic Italian expedition.

Many climbers have tried and failed to scale K2. Kiyoshi Furuno, the former president of the Japanese Alpine Club, was involved in planning this expedition from the beginning. He said that the ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp this year, and they didn't really care about the summit. Or rather, they weren't there ...

was also part of the expedition but did not summit). The Dutch team, including leader Wilco Van Rooijen, Cas van de Gevel, Ger McDonnell (the first Irishman to summit K2), and Pemba Gyalje ...

The dramatic stories of Fritz Wiessners 1939 K2 expedition and Charlie Houstons return in 1953 K2 is one of the hardest mountains in the world to climb This film focuses on the expeditions of ...

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2, his essential gear ... the only Nepalese food you can eat on all the expeditions. Everyone from the mountaineering community would know this!” ...