Climbers attempting the world's second tallest mountain were due to fork out $5,000 each under a planned price increase ...

Here's some good news for climbers planning to visit the Karakoram this year. Pakistan's threat to triple permit prices is on ...

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 ...

He will become the first South African to reach the summit of the Annapurna, which should be between April 20 and 25, weather permitting.

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 ...

In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on K2. Over 2 disastrous days, 11 of those people would lose their lives. This is the story of what really happened. Sitting on the border between China and ...

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, an Austrian-born mountaineer, became the first woman to climb the world’s 14 highest peaks without the help of oxygen or porters.

a private team led by Garrett Madison stepped onto the summit after climbing the Polish Glacier Direct route, an aesthetic and far less climbed, technical route with similarities to K2.

Mount Everest (8,848m / 29,029 feet): The highest peak on Earth - located on the Nepal-Tibet border and known for its two main climbing routes: the Southeast Ridge and the North Ridge. K2 (8,611m ...