Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after ...

Everest might be the world’s tallest mountain but talk to any mountaineer who has climbed both, and it’ll be K2, the second highest peak on the planet, that makes them go misty-eyed. This staggering ...

Dubai-based mountaineer Naila Kiani made history on Wednesday by leading a team of eight climbers in the recovery of Muhammad Hassan Shigri's body from an altitude of 8,200 meters on K2. This ...

An outfit of high-altitude porters (HAPs) has successfully retrieved the body of climber Muhammad Hassan Shigri from the bottleneck of K2 at a staggering 8,200m and reached advance base camp. Shigri ...

Phil Powers, executive director of the American Alpine Club, based in Golden, summited K2 in July 1993. On Monday, Powers recalled for the Rocky Mountain News how death also met his “great little team ...

In their new book, “K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain,” best-selling authors Ed Viesturs and David Roberts compile the astonishing and compelling stories of this magnificent ...

A Norwegian mountaineer has denied allegations that members of her climbing team walked over a dying porter and did nothing to help him during their record-breaking ascent of K2 in Pakistan last month ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani military helicopters continued to search for three missing climbers on the world's second highest mountain K2 on Monday, as hope of their survival faded rapidly.