Why do people risk their lives to summit the world's deadliest mountains?
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.
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Two Japanese missing on K2 in Pakistan; rescue being mounted
Two Japanese climbers have gone missing while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest ... fell on the 8,611-meter-high mountain in Pakistan on July 27. It is not known if they ...
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Extreme athlete Aidan Hyman on surviving a near-death experience, traveling the world & climbing K2
Growing up, Aidan Hyman wasn’t really into athletics. Then a cute guy came along. He was captain of the high school cross ...
Introducing Extreme: Peak Danger
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on ...
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Rescue attempt at K2 ends for two Japanese mountaineers
Rescue efforts have been called off for two famed Japanese mountain climbers and photographers who fell from K2, the world’s second-highest peak, in Pakistan. Ishii Sports Co., which Kazuya ...
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What Happened To Samina Baig? Popular Pakistani Mountaineer Airlifted During K2 Trek
Samina Baig, the first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest, fell ill while on an expedition to K2 and had to be airlifted by Pakistan Army helicopters to a hospital in Skardu, in the Gilgit ...