K2 is widely seen as the world's harshest mountain. Yet many indigenous porters make a living in its extreme conditions, carrying provisions for foreign climbing expeditions. Often risking their ...

The dramatic stories of Fritz Wiessners 1939 K2 expedition and Charlie Houstons return in 1953 K2 is one of the hardest mountains in the world to climb This film focuses on the expeditions of ...

Professional ice climber Will Gadd rates nine ice-climbing scenes in movies and television ... Kit Harington and Kristofer Hivju; mountain climbing in "K2" (1991); and mixed climbing in "The ...

The attempt to return to climbing's true roots: by honest means and work, work, work. This, as always, is our only secret." Oscar Cadiach, Manel de la Matta, Jordi Corominas, Jordi Tosas and Valentí ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...