Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

Today, British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves would have turned 63. Hargreaves dedicated her life to climbing but died too early, in the 1995 K2 tragedy. Hargreaves was born in Derbyshire, England, on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August ...

The first Scottish woman to climb K2 has told how family and friends urged her to "get new hobbies" after a devastating accident.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appeared to be the first from their countries to scale K2 on Friday, the world’s second-highest mountain and one of the most dangerous ...

ISTANBUL, 5 September (BelTA - Anadolu) - “I learned my power,” says Esin Handal, one of the first Turkish women to summit K2. Her climb of the world’s second-highest peak - and among the most ...