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

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 ...

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, located in the Karakorum mountain range, is one of the most dangerous climbs. Last month, team of 10 Nepalese climbers made history by scaling the K2 for the first time in winter.

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 ...

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 ...

"Climbing the Middle Teton has been a goal of mine for years now and I finally accomplished it! "After years of hiking and ...

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 ...

Towering 8,611m and reaching into the heavens like a snowcapped pyramid, K2 is the world's second-tallest mountain (topped only by Everest) and arguably the hardest to climb. In Peak Danger ...