Chasing Shadows,’ French alpinist Benjamin Vedrines shares his emotions high on the flanks of the world’s second-tallest peak ...

Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August. That would become the mountain's first August summits since 2011, ...

Throughout history, high-altitude climbing was the realm of Sherpa legends, alpinists, and mountaineers. But a recent trend has brought a new group of extreme adventure seekers to the world's most ...

Female mountain climbers face more obstacles than men when climbing the Himalayan mountain K2, but they choose to do so anyway for the thrill it provides, according to Jennifer Jordan, a journalist ...

Bad weather has thwarted all attempts to reach the summit of Broad Peak and diminished hopes for K2 climbers, especially since the worst of the storm is yet to come. Further down the valley, the ...

A lifestyle full of suffering isn’t something most people seek, but it is now a weekly regimen for University senior Bob Pool, who is hoping to become the youngest person to ever reach the summit of ...

The jet stream continues to hit the upper slopes of K2, and supplies are beginning to run low, but a dogged group of climbers still waits for their chance to dash to the summit. So far, no one has ...

Extreme sports exist in that strange space where human ambition meets the absolute edge of what’s physically possible. Second ...

The premise of K2, a play about two men trapped on a ledge at 27,000 feet on the side of the world’s second highest mountain with little chance of them both living through it together, is one that few ...

Last week, I wrote about some of the atrocities Hollywood had inflicted on the climbing community in their attempts at portraying the dramatic. These movies are so painfully bad, they make you want to ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

John Roskelley, a man who last year at the age of 53 ran the 7.5-mile Bloomsday course in a time of 47:50, doesn't do lunch. He hates wasting time. He's also not especially fond of slackers, hacks, ...