"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the first ...

There was only one summit push on K2 this year, very late in the season and in uncertain conditions. The push came after half the climbers in Base Camp called off their attempts. Three small ...

New footage and details from 2008 disaster in which 29 went up and 18 came down. Aug. 10, 2010 — -- It was the worst day on the world's deadliest mountain, Aug. 1, 2008. Twenty-nine climbers ...

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 first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

Standing in the "death zone" at the summit of the world's second-highest peak, Kirsty Mack allowed herself a brief celebration. Inspired by her late father, motivated to overcome a debilitating ...

K2 was founded in 2022 on a single thesis: the rise of launch vehicles like Falcon 9, Starship and New Glenn will make it possible to build an entirely new category of satellite. Satellites that are ...

A Westchester County family says K2, also known as synthetic marijuana, led to the death of their loved one after he became addicted to it. They say the unregulated drug is often sold in gas stations ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

K2-18b resides within the habitable zone of its star, making the presence of liquid water and thus life possible. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's ...