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 ...

While several climbers have already returned to K2 Base Camp after summiting over the weekend, other teams topped out a little later and are still on the mountain. All climbed via the normal Abruzzi ...

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 ...

Why the United States decided to continue using K2 as a base of operations for the invasion of Afghanistan despite evidence of this toxic mixture of chemicals is the subject of the latest letter from ...