"The Last First" is not a story of unabashed glory like those previous climb-every-mountain documentaries. Here the glory is ...

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, ...

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 ...

Four French climbers summited K2 without oxygen on July 28, including Benjamin Vedrines in a record 11 hours. Since then, they’ve been surprisingly tight-lipped about how they went down. Finally, the ...

Amir Bar-Lev's documentary is less about the sport than about how natural spaces are corrupted by human folly.

“The Last First: Winter K2” was the first screening of the Sundance Film Festival. The director, Amir Bar-Lev, described it ...

GILGIT: The documentary film The Last First: Winter K2, which chronicles the tragic fate of legendary climbers Moham­mad Ali ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a ...

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 ...