This topsy-turvy season, we have more information from alpine-style teams -- usually a reticent bunch -- than from the 8,000m commercial teams. Possible summits may have occurred on Nanga Parbat, but ...

"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 he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the first ...

Nine years ago, Yolo Superior Court Judge Paul Richardson fulfilled a lifelong dream of viewing Mount Everest from a nearby mountaintop. He returned to that part of the world this summer to hike to ...

The news just in from K2 Base Camp is that during the night on 28 July Tommaso Lamantia also reached the top of the second highest mountain in the world. The 42-year-old Italian mountaineer from ...

The trail to the base of Amin Brakk, a great wedge of vertical rock that’s earned comparisons to El Capitan, doesn’t so much start as the community slips away—up from the barley fields of Kanday ...

After a bone-shaking ride through the saw-toothed peaks of northern Pakistan, we find that floodwaters have wiped away the road ahead. Fortunately, Rashid, our driver, spots another Jeep across the ...

(Adds Italian climber's quotes, background) By Kamran Haider ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Hobbling on frostbitten feet, an Italian climber walked down to K2 base camp on Tuesday after heavy mists ...