Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fixing ropes on K2 is a joint effort by all the teams on the mountain. It is also a fight against the elements; the weather has ...

A Norwegian woman mountain climber and her Nepali Sherpa guide have set a new record by scaling the world’s 14 highest peaks in 92 days, a Pakistani mountaineering official said. On Thursday, Kristin ...

The season has ended without summits on Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak, but a few climbers refuse to abandon K2. The Sherpas with Imagine Nepal are willing to lead a summit push as soon as conditions ...

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 ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa guide who climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains in record time is eyeing another record, looking to become the youngest person to scale all those peaks twice.

Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

At the end of July, Ang D Sherpa, the owner of Sonoma Taxi, flew back to his home in Nepal and embarked on a major adventure: summiting K2 alongside three of his brothers. After nearly 40 days, they ...

ISLAMABAD — A Norwegian woman mountain climber and her Nepali Sherpa guide have set a new record by scaling the world’s 14 highest peaks in 92 days, a Pakistani mountaineering official said. On ...