"The Last First" is not a story of unabashed glory like those previous climb-every-mountain documentaries. Here the glory is ...

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 ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

Lev. SYNOPSIS: K2’s first winter ascent claimed 5 lives, revealing modern alpinism’s struggles with commercialization, social ...

The highest place on Earth is not necessarily the one most people picture when they imagine standing closest to the stars.

Eleven climbers died on Pakistan's K2 mountain after an ice avalanche knocked down a fixed rope climbers were using to reach the summit, a mountaineer at their base camp said Sunday. Among the dead ...

K2 MOUNTAIN is earth’s second-highest mountain, is notoriously difficult – and sometimes deadly – to climb. So where is it, and how did it get its name? Here’s all you need to know. Please provide a ...

The Last First: Winter K2 offers stunning cinematography as it dives into the politics and murky ethics of mountaineering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Japanese trekkers climbs the rock-covered Baltoro glacier in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan September 3, 2014 ...