Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

In 2018, he did the unimaginable: he became the first person to ski from the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. “At the bottom, I was as happy as a child... I felt great relief ...

Hiraide’s video footage captures not just the joys of an ascent to the summit ... conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide said he felt overwhelmed by the compelling power of the mountain when ...

Prime Minister's Youth Programme (PMYP) in an exciting initiative to spotlight the achievements and stories of young ...

On the reading list this week is a book of iconic photographs of the Himalayas by Vittorio Sella, a volume of 16 true-life narratives of love and longing in Kashmir, and an engaging memoir on an emine ...

On these subzero winter days, reading is sometimes wiser than going outdoors. A reflection of my age, no doubt. To ward off ...

On the 66th anniversary of the disputed first ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia by Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger, we examine ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp this year, and they didn't really care about the summit. Or rather ... apparently not ...

On 23 June the Italian mountaineer Michele Fait lost his life skiing from Camp 2 on the Cesen route on K2. Michele was a good man ... time and who in 2004 aborted his attempt just beneath the summit ...