Towering over the Karakoram range, K2 is the second-tallest peak on Earth — but also considered the planet's hardest mountain to climb. Its summit is 28,251 feet, or 8,611 meters, above sea ...

"It's an extraordinarily rough landscape," Gavan told the BBC in his Bucharest home, surrounded by books and climbing gear. So unforgiving are the conditions on K2, part of the Karakoram Range ...

Polish climbers who were hoping to be the first to climb the world's second-highest peak in winter have been forced to cancel. Heavy snow damaged camps and equipment on K2, a peak that only around ...

The ascent slashed by more than half the previous record for climbing K2 without bottled oxygen, completed in 23 hours by ...

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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 ...

Anything above eight thousand metres, i.e. in the death zone, and K2 is definitely the one. 'And if you climb K2, you're definitely solidified as a mountaineer. And I done it in nineteen days ...

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...

Vanessa O'Brien, the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent and the first American and British woman to climb the second-highest mountain in the world, explains why K2 is a ...