We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

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

K2, standing at 28251 feet above sea level, is the second highest peak globally. Many experts consider it the most treacherous mountain, responsible for numerous fatalities.

All of the tallest mountains in the world are located in Asia, either in the Himalayas or the Karakorum ranges. Of the 10 ...

Vittorio Sella was a pioneering Italian photographer whose work at the turn of the 20th Century shaped both mountain ...

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on K2. Over 2 disastrous days, 11 of those people would lose their lives. This ...

Two Japanese climbers have gone missing while attempting to scale K2 ... highest peak. According to reports, the two mountaineers slipped and fell on the 8,611-meter-high mountain in Pakistan ...

They were trying to scale the peak in Pakistan using minimal ... "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers have tried and failed to scale K2. Kiyoshi Furuno, the former president ...

Speaking from the confines of his tent at the base camp of K2 in Northern Pakistan, he tells Khaleej Times about his gruelling expedition to the peak of the unforgiving mountain, where nothing is ...

Mount Everest is indeed the world's highest mountain, with its peak standing at 8,849m (that's 8.8km) above the ocean.

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on K2. Over 2 disastrous days, 11 of those people would lose their lives.