Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Serge Hardy didn't call off his attempt on K2 as earlier news from the mountain suggested. He turned to supplementary oxygen from ...

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 ...

Apple Original Films has landed global rights to “The Last First: Winter K2,” a sports documentary that recently premiered at ...

ISTANBUL, 5 September (BelTA - Anadolu) - “I learned my power,” says Esin Handal, one of the first Turkish women to summit K2. Her climb of the world’s second-highest peak - and among the most ...

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 ...

A new Sundance film called “The Summit” explores the psychology behind what happened on the deadliest day on K2, known as the world’s most dangerous mountain. On August 1, 2008, 25 climbers set out to ...

The highest place on Earth is not necessarily the one most people picture when they imagine standing closest to the stars. The familiar image of climbers inching up the icy flanks of Everest or K2 ...