Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of K2, taken in 2014.Alan Arnette On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 as a man lay dying in their path.

Climbing K2, the world’s second highest mountain, can seem like a game of Russian roulette. That analogy was never more true than it was on July 23, 2016, when a massive avalanche tore through Camp 3 ...

Throughout this 40th anniversary year of Australian Geographic we’re looking back at a selection of stories we’ve run over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's now or...another year. The remaining climbers on K2 are on the go toward the summit, hoping their patience will pay off. The ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD >> An investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world’s most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following ...

Last month, 52-year-old mountaineer Vanessa O’Brien found the snow so deep on her K2 summit attempt that she forgot about her aching knee, recent shoulder surgery, and stress fracture in her sacrum.

On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 as a man lay dying in their path. Footage from the mountain would later shock the world when it showed climbers walking past him. But Insider's ...