For some observers the potential for disaster on K2 this winter carries echoes of Everest in 1996, when a vicious storm killed eight climbers close to the summit.

ISLAMABAD – K2′s “savage” peak beckons the daring, but rare is the climber who answers the call in winter. Dwarfed only by Mount Everest, K2 is the world’s second highest peak at 8,611 ...

K2, the world's second tallest peak, straddles the Pakistan-China border in the Karakorum Range. Of the planet's 14 8,000-meter mountains, it is the only one that has never been summited in winter.

A successful winter summit of the notoriously dangerous K2 is regarded as one of the last great challenges in mountaineering, but the first woman to reach Earth’s highest and lowest points has ...

K2 is the world's second highest peak at 28,251 feet, and one of the deadliest, especially in winter. Hope wanes for a recent group of mountaineers.