Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after ...

Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August. That would become the mountain's first August summits since 2011, ...

In June of 2008, an international team of mountaineers, friends who have climbed together in the past, set off an a journey to summit K2.

There was only one summit push on K2 this year, very late in the season and in uncertain conditions. The push came after half the climbers in Base Camp called off their attempts. Three small ...