K2 (8,611 meters/28,251 feet), or "Chogori," is the world's second highest mountain, after Everest (8,048 meters). Unlike Everest and the eight other highest mountains on Earth, K2 is not located in ...
On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 as a man lay dying in their path. Footage from the mountain would later shock the world when it showed climbers walking past him. But Insider's ...
TULALIP – When Don Beavon was trudging up the last 1,500 feet of Mount Everest, he wondered why he was losing ground to other members of his party, and why other climbers kept passing him. He felt ...
"The Last First" is not a story of unabashed glory like those previous climb-every-mountain documentaries. Here the glory is ...
(CNN) — Spanish mountaineer Sergi Mingote has died while climbing K2, the world’s second highest summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday. “Sad death of Sergi Mingote at K2,” ...
On July 21 at 10:45 P.M. Pakistan time, five climbers stood on the summit of 28,251-foot K2. They were the first mountaineers to reach the peak’s top during the 2022 summer climbing season, after ...
Winter K2 review - mountaineers compete with veteran climbers and inexperienced tourists to land an historic winter ascent at K2.