Naila Kiani is on her way to becoming the first Pakistani woman to complete the 14x8,000'ers, but her impact goes beyond ...

Located on the border of Pakistan and China, K2 has a reputation for being extremely challenging to climb because of its steep slopes, avalanches and unpredictable weather. Mr Rahman, based in Oldham, ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday invited Qatari mountaineer Sheikha Asma Al Thani, recently appointed as Pakistan's ...

The big Nepalese agencies are already fixing the route on K2 as clients begin to arrive, but even basic details about teams ...

The climbing season in the Himalayas continues, with high-altitude expeditions taking on K2 and other 8,000-meter peaks in the Karakoram. After a successful spr ...

Climbers recovered the body of a Pakistani porter from K2 mountain, a climbing federation confirmed Tuesday, a year after he died while other climbers made a record-breaking ascent.

By AFP Published August 5, 2024 French climber Benjamin Vedrines (left) returns to Hushe village in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region after he summited K2, the world's second-highest mountain, in ...

K2 has also been called The King of Mountains, The Mountaineers' Mountain, and The Mountain of Mountains – the name which prominent Italian climber Reinhold Messner titled his book about K2.

For avid mountaineers around the world, K2 represents the true peak of climbing challenges. The world's second-tallest mountain after Mount Everest, K2 is widely regarded as a more difficult and ...

The climbers who summited K2 that day were swept into the heart of a bitter debate. Speculation churned as people argued whether a man more than 8,000 meters above sea level could have been saved from ...