No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley has now been published in Italy by Mondadori. The book retraces the 2008 tragedy on K2 which cost the lives of 11 alpinists and only Italian ...

Today, British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves would have turned 63. Hargreaves dedicated her life to climbing but died too early, in the 1995 K2 tragedy. Hargreaves was born in Derbyshire, England, on ...

New footage and details from 2008 disaster in which 29 went up and 18 came down. Aug. 10, 2010 — -- It was the worst day on the world's deadliest mountain, Aug. 1, 2008. Twenty-nine climbers ...

In June of 2008, an international team of mountaineers, friends who have climbed together in the past, set off an a journey to summit K2.

If people were asked to name the most difficult mountain to climb on Earth, Everest would probably come up nine times out of 10. But if mountain climbers were asked the same question, they’d all ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan The last survivor of the deadliest mountaineering disaster to hit K2 limped into base camp with frostbitten feet Tuesday, but thick clouds threatened to keep him on the mountain ...