After a difficult climbing season on K2 comes to a close, tragedy has struck again. The late-spring season was already marred by tragic death, challenging climbing conditions, and very few successful ...

Climbers recovered the body of a Pakistani porter from K2 mountain, a climbing federation confirmed Tuesday, a year after he died while other climbers made a record-breaking ascent. The Barron's news ...

K2 was first surveyed in 1856 by Colonel T.G. Montgomerie, who named it as the second peak (K2) in the Karakoram range. The mountain's name, Mount Godwin-Austen, honors Henry Godwin-Austen, an early ...

Everest might be the world’s tallest mountain but talk to any mountaineer who has climbed both, and it’ll be K2, the second highest peak on the planet, that makes them go misty-eyed. This staggering ...

A Chinese climber has died after being struck by falling rocks while descending K2 in northern Pakistan, a day after she summited the peak. Authorities are working to recover the body of Guan Jing, ...

A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world's second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a Pakistani official said.