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 ...

K2 (8,611 meters/28,251 feet), or "Chogori," is the world's second highest mountain, after Everest (8,048 meters). Unlike Everest and the eight other highest mountains on Earth, K2 is not located in ...

Rising to over 28,000 feet on the border between Pakistan and China, K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, lower only than Everest. But among mountaineers, K2 holds a fearsome reputation that ...

It's the second-tallest mountain in the world, and only 18 women have survived the climb to the top of K2, known among climbers as "Savage Mountain." But Vanessa O'Brien wants to become the first ...

Pakistani mountaineer Shehroze Kashif faced many dangers climbing the planet's tallest peaks, but his toughest moment came when he passed the corpse of his hero on the savage slopes of K2. Kashif was ...