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

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

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

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, ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

Two elite, famed mountaineers have died on K2. The Japanese Embassy in Islamabad reported that Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, fell from approximately 24,500 ft. on the second highest ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appeared to be the first from their countries to scale K2 on Friday, the world’s second-highest mountain and one of the most dangerous ...