At least nine climbers have died on the world's most dangerous mountain after a series of incidents led to chaos on the slopes of K2. Officials say a number of other climbers are missing and that ...

AN Irish documentary about a mountain-climbing disaster has been selected for Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival. Produced and directed by Nick Ryan, 'The Summit' tells of how on August 1 ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A helicopter plucked two frostbitten Dutch climbers from K2 on Monday after an avalanche and exposure left at least 11 people presumed dead on the world's second-highest ...

At least nine climbers are believed dead and five others were missing on K2, the world's second-highest peak. The jagged, 28,250-foot mountain, which lies in the Himalayan range in northern ...

"No Way Down: Life and Death on K2" (Harper, $25.99) is the latest account of the most recent worst disaster in the great ranges of Asia.

The Summit Trailer 2. Nick Ryan ‘s The Summit (2012) movie trailer 2 for the K2 documentary stars Christine Barnes, Hoselito Bite, Marco Confortola, Pat Falvey, and Niall Foley.

Ed Viesturs, the first American to climb the world's three highest mountains, dissects the tragedies and triumphs of K2, the second-highest mountain. In this excerpt, he analyzes the 2008 K2 ...

K2 has often flashed its savage side. One of the most famous disasters came in the summer of 1995. We examine the 1995 K2 disaster in a two-part series.

This one is "Buried in the Sky,'' a tale of the 2008 climbing disaster on K2, by Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan. Another title on the disaster ...

Two Dutch climbers were rescued by helicopter from K2 days after the mountain claimed 11 lives. As one Italian climber continues to hope for rescue, climbing legend Reinhold Messner criticized the ...

A mountaineer has denied allegations that she climbed over and failed to assist a dying Sherpa during her record-breaking climb up the Himalayan mountain K2 on the Pakistan-China border.