K2 has often flashed its savage side. One of the most famous disasters came in the summer of 1995. We examine the 1995 K2 ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

22 concluded that two representatives of the company died after slipping and falling ... The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation from a helicopter and reported that ...

Alison Hargreaves would have turned 63. She had already become one of the best climbers of her generation when she died at ...

Like many climbers, she called the rush of ... and the always-present spectre of cheating death. "If you are going to take on K2, you got to be at the top of your game. That is why it is known ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest ... and just being there brings you close to death,” he said. Climbing an unexplored route, he added, “requires high-level judgement ...

the last climber of the historical Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2 in 1954. Just over 20 days ago Ugo Angelino, another member of that historic expedition, died, too. Born in 1922 ...