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, ...

The climbers who summited K2 yesterday are now carefully descending the mountain. As the trackers of several climbers indicate, each team is following a different pace. The Imagine Nepal and Alpinist ...

Two elite, famed mountaineers have died on K2. The Japanese Embassy in Islamabad reported that Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, fell from approximately 24,500 ft. on the second highest ...

The first Pakistani woman to climb K2 was Samina Baig in 2022. Ms Nasab is the third, and hopes more Pakistani women will follow. Ms Nasab said the biggest barrier keeping women off Pakistan's tallest ...

On Aug. 2, as he lay in his tent, Eric Meyer awoke to screaming and yelling after a mountain climber plummeted about 650 feet to his death while climbing K2, the world’s second-highest and ...

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 ...

French climber Benjamin Vedrines (left) returns to Hushe village in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region after he summited K2, the world's second-highest mountain, in ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A team of climbers from Nepal on Saturday become the first mountaineers to successfully complete a winter attempt on the summit of K2, the world's second tallest peak. The group ...