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 ...

The first Scottish woman to climb K2 has told how family and friends urged her to "get new hobbies" after a devastating accident.

Today, British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves would have turned 63. Hargreaves dedicated her life to climbing but died too early, in the 1995 K2 tragedy. Hargreaves was born in Derbyshire, England, on ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appeared to be the first from their countries to scale K2 on Friday, the world’s second-highest mountain and one of the most dangerous ...

Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August. That would become the mountain's first August summits since 2011, ...

K2 is the second-tallest mountain in the world, and it’s the second-most dangerous mountain to climb as well. The mountain, which straddles the border of Pakistan and China, is 28,251 feet tall and ...