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

Amir Bar-Lev's documentary is less about the sport than about how natural spaces are corrupted by human folly.

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 ...

Lev. SYNOPSIS: K2’s first winter ascent claimed 5 lives, revealing modern alpinism’s struggles with commercialization, social ...

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, ...

A fatal attempt to ascend K2 in winter 2020-2021 is documented in the Sundance film 'The Last First: Winter K2,' directed by Amir Bar-Lev.

A Chinese climber has died after being struck by falling rocks while descending K2 in northern Pakistan, a day after she summited the peak. Authorities are working to recover the body of Guan Jing, ...

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 ...