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 ...

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 jet stream continues to hit the upper slopes of K2, and supplies are beginning to run low, but a dogged group of climbers still waits for their chance to dash to the summit. So far, no one has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past decade, the mountain-climbing documentary has become a genre unto itself. Spectacular movies like “Free Solo,” “The ...

The Nepali climbers are the first to summit K2 during its dangerous winter season A team of 10 Nepali climbers has set a new world record by becoming the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's ...

A lifestyle full of suffering isn’t something most people seek, but it is now a weekly regimen for University senior Bob Pool, who is hoping to become the youngest person to ever reach the summit of ...

Apple Original Films has landed global rights to “The Last First: Winter K2,” a sports documentary that recently premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Amir Bar Lev, “The Last First” ...

On Aug. 2, as he lay in his tent, Eric Meyer awoke to screaming and yelling after a mountain climber plummeted about 650 feet to his death while climbing K2, the world’s second-highest and ...

A new Sundance film called “The Summit” explores the psychology behind what happened on the deadliest day on K2, known as the world’s most dangerous mountain. On August 1, 2008, 25 climbers set out to ...

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