Pakistan’s foreign ministry issued a statement ... Although Mount Everest is 237 meters (777 feet) taller than K2, the K2 mountain is much farther north on the border with China and subject ...

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

Two Japanese climbers have gone missing while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second ... and fell on the 8,611-meter-high mountain in Pakistan on July 27. It is not known if they survived.

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

Vittorio Sella was a pioneering Italian photographer whose work at the turn of the 20th Century shaped both mountain ...

Located in the Karakoram range, K2 rises between Pakistan and China. K2 is known as the ‘Savage Mountain’ and is the ...

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 ...

K2 (8,611m / 28,251 feet): Known as the "Savage Mountain," K2, the world’s second-highest peak is located on the Pakistan-China border in the Karakoram range. Kangchenjunga (8,586m / 28,169 feet ...

The mother and the aunt of Greg Mortenson, author of the New York Times best-seller”Three Cups of Tea,” are featured speakers at the Chaska Library Saturday. Jerene Mortenson and ...

Sitting on the border between China and Pakistan, K2 is a perfect pyramid that pierces through the clouds. It looks like a kid’s drawing of a mountain…but this terrifying peak is anything but ...