These peaks represent secondary summits – not actual summits. True 8,000-meter peaks including Mount Everest, Annapurna, K2, Nanga Parbat, and Shisha Pangma also include secondary summits ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...

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

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

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

Mount Vinson, Antarctica Climbers enjoy great success on Mount Vinson this season. The Antarctic summer runs from November ...

His eyes are now locked on Everest. But the world’s highest ... he became the first person to ski from the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. “At the bottom, I was as happy ...

Vittoria Sella scaled many tall peaks, including Kangchenjunga and K2, and took some of the greatest photographs ever of the ...

Last Saturday, 28-year-old super-featherweight boxer John Cooney died after his defeat by Welshman Nathan Howells in Belfast ...

The list of globally recognised eight-thousanders in Nepal includes Everest (8,848.86 metres), Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), ...