Here are some of the best mountain climbing movies ... Summit is based on the 2008 K2 disaster in which 22 international climbers gathered on High Camp of K2 — the second highest mountain ...

Harila, 37, reached the summit of Pakistan’s K2 on Thursday — conquering the world’s 14 highest mountains in 92 days, obliterating the previous record of 189 days.

She has roughly four weeks to climb the seven highest mountains in Nepal. Most climbers take the entire climbing season to scale just one peak. Norwegian climber Kristin Harila, 37, smiles after ...

Climbing Chimborazo Chimborazo is only the 39th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19th century when it was thought to be the world’s ...

Aconcagua. Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the western and southern hemispheres and the tallest peak outside of Asia, rises to 22,841 feet (6,961 meters).

The tallest mountain in the Americas, Aconcagua, falls into this category. At 22,838 feet, this Argentinian behemoth, the high point of the vast Andes range, is almost 10,000 feet taller than any ...

His team said he summitted the world's highest mountain, 29,032-foot Mount Everest, last year, within a day of reaching the top of another peak on the 8,000-meter-plus list, Mount Lhotse.

I’d Climb the Highest Mountain The plot line is strung together with a series of episodes in the life of a minister and his city-bred bride on their first duty for the church.

Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world’s highest peak.