The jet stream continues to hit the upper slopes of K2, and supplies are beginning to run low, but a dogged group of climbers still waits for their chance to dash to the summit. So far, no one has ...

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 ...

Female mountain climbers face more obstacles than men when climbing the Himalayan mountain K2, but they choose to do so anyway for the thrill it provides, according to Jennifer Jordan, a journalist ...

Everest might be the world’s tallest mountain but talk to any mountaineer who has climbed both, and it’ll be K2, the second highest peak on the planet, that makes them go misty-eyed. This staggering ...

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 ...

The climbers' bodies have been found and specialist searchers were working to recover them "in a challenging alpine ...