Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after ...

K2 is not just Everest’s harder neighbor. The mountain once had a fatality rate near 20%, with about one death for every four successful summits, and the danger gets worse after climbers are already ...

This is the latest edition of disaster happening to those climbing the world's highest peaks. Graham Bowley writes a riveting narrative of the sequence of events that killed 11 climbers and porters in ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – After a painful descent on frostbitten feet, the last survivor of the mounteering disaster that killed 11 climbers on K2 reached base camp Tuesday as cloud and snow prevented a ...

Limping through ice on frostbitten feet, the last survivor of the mountaineering disaster that killed 11 climbers on K2 reached base camp Tuesday as clouds and snow prevented a helicopter rescue.

On August 1, 2008, in a single disastrous chain of events, 11 climbers were killed high on K2’s Abruzzi Ridge in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range. One of the worst accidents in mountaineering history, it ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A helicopter plucked two frostbitten Dutch climbers from K2 on Monday after an avalanche and exposure left at least 11 people presumed dead on the world's second-highest mountain ...

The Summit Trailer 2. Nick Ryan‘s The Summit (2012) movie trailer 2 for the K2 documentary stars Christine Barnes, Hoselito Bite, Marco Confortola, Pat Falvey, and Niall Foley. The Summit‘s plot ...

The Summit, a feature-length documentary shot by an Irish film crew chronicling one of the deadliest days in modern mountain history when 11 climbers, including Limerick man Ger McDonnell, lost their ...

Rescuers airlifted two frostbitten Dutch climbers to safety from K2 on Monday, but were unable to reach an Italian stranded by an ice fall that killed 11 men on the world's second highest peak. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. K2 has often flashed its savage side. One of the most famous disasters happened in the summer of 1995, between August 13 and 15.