In 1992, high on K2, French climber Chantal Mauduit was exhausted and snowblind. Over the next two days, several climbers ...

K2 is widely seen as the world's harshest mountain. Yet many indigenous porters make a living in its extreme conditions, carrying provisions for foreign climbing expeditions. Often risking their ...

Professional ice climber Will Gadd rates nine ice-climbing scenes in movies and television shows ... mountain climbing in "K2" (1991); and mixed climbing in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings ...

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 ...