The northerly wind was driving towers of rising cloud up over K2, and as it drifted over the summit, periodically obliterating my view of the mountain, it would sweep the flanks with showers of ...

The Austrian alpinist and skyrunner had originally claimed to have reached the summit of K2 on 10 August, and first details talked ... Just as it must be shocking from a human point of view... from ...

Steindl also said that July 27 was the only day in this season on which conditions were good enough for mountaineers to reach the summit of K2, which explains why there were so many climbers eager ...

The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto Zerain at 3 p.m., who was hiking solo. In the film, Norwegian climber Lars Nessa describes Zerain as a "mythic figure." Zerain seems to ...

Samina Baig and her Pakistani team successfully summited the savage peak of K2 at 7:42 am today. In 2013, Samina Baig became the first Pakistani woman to summit Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the ...