The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation from a helicopter and reported that the two Japanese “were ...

Rebecca Long, an Andover native, knew she’d be putting her life in jeopardy when she set out to conquer the world’s second ...

Four French climbers summited K2 without oxygen on July 28, including Benjamin Vedrines in a record 11 hours. Since then, ...

French climber Benjamin Vedrines has set a new speed record on K2 - taking only 11 hours. Read more ...

French mountaineer Benjamin Vedrines counted every second as he made history's fastest-ever ascent of K2, but says he doesn't ...

Climbers recovered the body of a Pakistani porter from K2 mountain, a climbing federation confirmed Tuesday, a year after he died while other climbers made a record-breaking ascent. Muhammad ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...

Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima had recently ventured to Pakistan to attempt pioneering a new route on the West Face of K2. They planned to climb alpine style – carrying minimal gear and going ...

The team has acclimatized for many weeks by working up the mountain to the first two camps ... Everest, he successfully completed climbing the highest peak on each of the world’s seven ...

Murad Sadpara, 35, died of a wound sustained when a rock hit him on the 8,047-meter (26,400-foot) high Broad Peak in the ...

Vitamin K2 is lauded for a number of important health benefits. But taking too much can be dangerous, health experts say.

At times Vedrines was climbing solo, as well as at record speed ... "I feel very grateful that the K2 mountain finally accepted me this year," said Vedrines. "It was not a form of revenge ...