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

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

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in ...

By January 2005, all the world’s tallest mountains – the 14 peaks that stretch above 8,000 meters – had been summited in wintertime, the most dangerous time of year for climbing. All except for one, ...

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 offers stunning cinematography as it dives into the politics and murky ethics of mountaineering ...

Winter K2 review - mountaineers compete with veteran climbers and inexperienced tourists to land an historic winter ascent at K2.

Eleven climbers died on Pakistan's K2 mountain after an ice avalanche knocked down a fixed rope climbers were using to reach the summit, a mountaineer at their base camp said Sunday. Among the dead ...

High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video ...

Spanish mountaineer Sergi Mingote has died while climbing K2, the world's second highest summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday. "Sad death of Sergi Mingote at K2," Sanchez ...

K2 is the second-tallest mountain in the world, and it’s the second-most dangerous mountain to climb as well. The mountain, which straddles the border of Pakistan and China, is 28,251 feet tall and ...