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

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

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 ...

High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video from Mountain Disasters revisits the July 28, 2019, tragedy on K2, where a ...

By January 2005, all the world’s tallest mountains – the 14 peaks that stretch above 8,000 meters – had been summited in ...

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

It's now or...another year. The remaining climbers on K2 are on the go toward the summit, hoping their patience will pay off. The Sherpa and Pakistani climbers led the march to Camp 1 today, while ...

The season has ended without summits on Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak, but a few climbers refuse to abandon K2. The Sherpas with Imagine Nepal are willing to lead a summit push as soon as conditions ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a ...

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 ...