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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"How much do we know about Pakistan?" writes columnist Donna Maurillo. "Well, it’s northwest of India and southeast of ...

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 group stopped 10m below the top, and took the final steps together to be on the top simultaneously. K2 was the last of the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks not summited in winter.