Hiraide Kazuya and Nakajima Kenro lost their lives in July attempting to ascend the world's second-highest mountain. NHK ...

This picture of Alex Gavan in July 2019 shows K2 in the background Two European mountaineers embark this week on a bitterly cold, week-long trek to reach base camp on the world's second highest ...

K2, the second-tallest mountain on Earth, is the poster child of the Karakoram range, which was thrown up millions of years ...

mountain this winter hoping to achieve the same feat. But one Spanish mountaineer has died after suffering a fall this weekend while descending. K2, which is only 200m shorter than Everest ...

K2, located in the Karakorum mountain range, is one of the most dangerous climbs. Last month, team of 10 Nepalese climbers made history by scaling the K2 for the first time in winter.

Mountaineers have been paying tribute to two experienced climbers who are missing on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, are two of Japan’s ...

Mount Kanchenjunga is seen from Siliguri. Kanchenjunga is the world's third highest mountain at 8169 feet) after Mount ...

Thirty years ago Julie Tullis became the first British woman to reach the summit of the Himalayan mountain K2, the second highest mountain in the world and one of the most challenging for climbers.

With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman in the world to have climbed ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the ...