Other well-known figures are heading to K2 as well, including Valery Babanov of Russia, who attempted Everest without O2 this spring. In the photo below, taken in Skardu, he stands beside Jorge ...

Anything over that, you really risk heading to a memorial at the bottom of the mountain. That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours. You know, when I'm looking ...

Everest, either. This world-class mountaineer has summited Mt. Everest 14 times, in addition to other massive peaks like K2, Denali, and Mt. Everest's smaller but formidable neighbors, Mt.

Everest. Following is a transcript of the video. So when comparing Everest versus K2, they are very, very different. First, you have two different countries. You have Nepal versus Pakistan so I'd ...

Though a couple of vertical football fields lower than Everest, K2 is far more difficult. Its slopes are relentlessly steep, fraught with technical cruxes and bombarded regularly by falling rock ...

Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain ... The delay comes as the price of climbing Mount Everest is set to rise dramatically. It will go up after the summer climbing ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...

Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the 2015 movie is the mountain ...

This article uncovers the highest mountains in Asia and their breathtaking altitudes, with the Himalayas' peaks dominating ...

Located on the Pakistan-China border within the formidable Karakoram range, K2 is infamous for its treacherous terrain and severe weather conditions. Unlike Everest, K2 has no commercial climbing ...

It's not exactly alpine style up a new route, but Vassiliy Pivtso, 49, and his small team will try to make their Makalu climb as retro as possible in this commercial age. The Kazakh climber once ...

With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman ... In May 2010 Edurne Pasaban from Spain climbed all fourteen peaks (using supplementary O2 for Everest) while a few months earlier ...