Keep your fingers crossed, writes Andrzej Bargiel in a short post on Instagram. No further words are needed, since his expedition's name, Everest Ski Challenge, says it all. The Polish skier is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walking back from K2 base camp along the Godwin-Austen Glacier, facing Chogolisa Peak (Kate Eshelby) After a bone-shaking ride ...

Mt. Everest is the world's tallest peak. But some mountaineers, like Garrett Madison, say it isn't the hardest to climb. Hundreds of people summit Mt. Everest each year, and you don't need to be an ...

At 8,611m, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world. It has a notorious reputation for being the "savage mountain". More people have died on the slopes of Mount Everest but by ratio of number of ...

Everest might be the world’s tallest mountain but talk to any mountaineer who has climbed both, and it’ll be K2, the second highest peak on the planet, that makes them go misty-eyed. This staggering ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...