Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This topsy-turvy season, we have more information from alpine-style teams -- usually a reticent bunch -- than from the 8,000m ...

There was only one summit push on K2 this year, very late in the season and in uncertain conditions. The push came after half the climbers in Base Camp called off their attempts. Three small ...

The trail to the base of Amin Brakk, a great wedge of vertical rock that’s earned comparisons to El Capitan, doesn’t so much start as the community slips away—up from the barley fields of Kanday ...

The mountain rises glistening from an encasement of glaciers in the far reaches of the Karakoram. Pyramid-shaped, an austere link to eternity, K2 yields only to Everest in height and is deadlier. Its ...

The climbing season in the Himalayas continues, with high-altitude expeditions taking on K2 and other 8,000-meter peaks in the Karakoram. After a successful spring season on Mount Everest, Lhotse, and ...