Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

He was one of 11 climbers who died in one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history when an ice fall swept away fixed ropes on the peak in Pakistan. K2, known as the Savage Mountain ...

A Japanese equipment supplier on Aug. 22 concluded that two representatives of the company died after slipping and falling for more than a kilometer on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.

K2, known as the 'savage mountain' in the Karakoram ... has a death rate of 9% for those who summit the peak. But none of these death tolls compare to Annapurna I, the world’s 10th highest ...

Cecilie Skog and her fellow climbers are in the Death Zone, their eyes trained on the top of K2. They’re approaching one of the most dangerous parts of the mountain - but things aren’t going ...

Vanessa O'Brien: 26,000 feet or 8,000 meters, they do call the "death zone ... heading to a memorial at the bottom of the mountain. That's why on K2, I was worried about our team.

Mountaineers have been paying tribute to two experienced climbers who are missing on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain ... They were trying to scale the peak in Pakistan using minimal ...

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on ...