K2 (8,611 meters/28,251 feet), or "Chogori," is the world's second highest mountain, after Everest (8,048 meters). Unlike Everest and the eight other highest mountains on Earth, K2 is not located in ...

A group of Japanese trekkers climbs the rock-covered Baltoro glacier in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan September 3, 2014. Geographically, Pakistan is a climbers paradise. It rivals Nepal for ...

(CNN)-- A Pakistani rescue helicopter evacuated an Italian climber Wednesday -- four days after he survived a deadly ice avalanche on K2, the world's second highest mountain. The helicopter picked up ...

An 'egotistic' mountaineer has been pictured celebrating reaching the summit of K2 just moments after climbers 'walked over a dying porter'. Critics accused Norwegian climber Kristin Harila and her ...

Climbers have expressed fury at plans to install ladders on the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world which takes the lives of one in four who try to scale it. Mountaineers fear the ...

A horrified woman set off on an emotional trek to the world’s second highest peak to bury her loved ones after seeing their remains in a promotional video two years after they were killed in an ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — K2′s “savage” peak beckons the daring, but rare is the climber who answers the call in winter. Dwarfed only by Mt. Everest, K2 is the world’s second-highest peak at 28,251 feet, ...

The entire country prays for a miracle in finding renowned Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara after contact was lost with him during his quest to summit K2 in the perilous Karakoram winter, as ...

K2 MOUNTAIN is earth’s second-highest mountain, is notoriously difficult – and sometimes deadly – to climb. So where is it, and how did it get its name? Here’s all you need to know. Please provide a ...