Sajid Ali Sadpara, the son of legendary Mohammad Ali Sadpara, has retrieved the bodies of three missing climbers including his father, who went missing while attempting to summit K2 in February this ...

"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the first ...

An outfit of high-altitude porters (HAPs) has successfully retrieved the body of climber Muhammad Hassan Shigri from the bottleneck of K2 at a staggering 8,200m and reached advance base camp. Shigri ...

Dubai-based mountaineer Naila Kiani made history on Wednesday by leading a team of eight climbers in the recovery of Muhammad Hassan Shigri’s body from an altitude of 8,200 meters on K2. This ...

GILGIT: Bodies of Pakistani climber Mohammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri of Iceland and Juan Pablo Mohr of Chile were found near the bottleneck of K2 on Monday, about five months after they went missing ...

Phil Powers, executive director of the American Alpine Club, based in Golden, summited K2 in July 1993. On Monday, Powers recalled for the Rocky Mountain News how death also met his “great little team ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani military helicopters continued to search for three missing climbers on the world's second highest mountain K2 on Monday, as hope of their survival faded rapidly.

On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 as a man lay dying in their path. Footage from the mountain would later shock the world when it showed climbers walking past him. But Insider's ...

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 disaster, ...

A Norwegian mountaineer has denied allegations that members of her climbing team walked over a dying porter and did nothing to help him during their record-breaking ascent of K2 in Pakistan last month ...

A Norwegian climber defended her decision to continue a record-breaking series of climbs last month after encountering an injured porter who later died during her ascent of K2, the second-highest ...

ISLAMABAD -- An investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world's most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following ...