K2 (8,611 meters/28,251 feet), or "Chogori," is the world's second highest mountain, after Everest (8,048 meters). Unlike Everest and the eight other highest mountains on Earth, K2 is not located in ...

K2 MOUNTAIN is earth’s second-highest mountain, is notoriously difficult – and sometimes deadly – to climb. So where is it, and how did it get its name? Here’s all you need to know. Please provide a ...

A renowned Scottish climber died in an avalanche while attempting to scale K2 in northern Pakistan, the world's second-highest mountain peak, a Pakistani mountaineering official and the charity said ...

Climbers have expressed fury at plans to install ladders on the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world which takes the lives of one in four who try to scale it. Mountaineers fear the ...

K2 mountaineers have accused fellow climbers of skirting around a dying Sherpa to reach the summit of the 'savage mountain' because they were more interested in setting records than saving the life of ...

A horrified woman set off on an emotional trek to the world’s second highest peak to bury her loved ones after seeing their remains in a promotional video two years after they were killed in an ...

A group of Japanese trekkers climbs the rock-covered Baltoro glacier in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan September 3, 2014. Geographically, Pakistan is a climbers paradise. It rivals Nepal for ...

The entire country prays for a miracle in finding renowned Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara after contact was lost with him during his quest to summit K2 in the perilous Karakoram winter, as ...