Mountaineers have been paying tribute to two experienced climbers who are missing on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, are two of Japan’s ...

K2 is known as "the savage mountain" because of the difficulty of the climb in winter His wife Lynne said she was relieved to hear from him. "I always knew in the back of my mind with Noel that he ...

Winter K2 emerged as alpinism’s last great first: the world’s toughest mountain in the most dangerous season. This past winter, more than 60 climbers constituting four teams of varying sizes ...

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

Ten months later, he managed to scale K2, the second-highest ... had bad luck when he climbed the Broad Peak mountain in Pakistan back in July 2021. During the climb, several members of the ...

The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation from a helicopter and reported that the two Japanese “were connected by a rope about 6,300 meters up the mountain.” ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

climbing very high on a beautiful new line on a sub-peak nearby K2, almost 7,000 meters. (We) had epic views up there and ...

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on ...

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 ...

Winter K2 emerged as alpinism’s last great first: the world’s toughest mountain in the most dangerous season. This past winter, more than 60 climbers constituting four teams of varying sizes ...