Two Japanese climbers have gone missing while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second ... and fell on the 8,611-meter-high mountain in Pakistan on July 27. It is not known if they survived.

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry issued a statement ... Although Mount Everest is 237 meters (777 feet) taller than K2, the K2 mountain is much farther north on the border with China and subject ...

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on K2. Over 2 disastrous days, 11 of those people would lose their lives. This ...

When a climber falls or wanders off the trail, it's an unwritten code of the mountain to leave them for dead, according to the film. The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto ...

Located in the Karakoram range, K2 rises between Pakistan and China. K2 is known as the ‘Savage Mountain’ and is the ...

Mount Everest is indeed the world's highest mountain, with its peak standing at 8,849m (that's 8.8km) above the ocean.

The world’s second-highest mountain ... shop around. K2, topmost of the Himalayas-adjacent Karakoram Range and spanning a politically tenuous area of Kashmir administered by Pakistan and China ...

Pakistan is a country blessed with a rich and diverse geography that spans from towering mountains to vast deserts and fertile plains The influence of these natural landscapes has not only shaped the ...

Sitting on the border between China and Pakistan, K2 is a perfect pyramid that pierces through the clouds. It looks like a kid’s drawing of a mountain…but this terrifying peak is anything but ...