Chasing Shadows,’ French alpinist Benjamin Vedrines shares his emotions high on the flanks of the world’s second-tallest peak ...

Imagine being stranded with a broken leg on the narrow ledge of a 600-foot ice wall, in minus 50-degree weather, just 1,000 feet from the summit of the second highest mountain in the world. That’s the ...

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 ...

The death certificate said William Berry died from “complications of blunt head trauma.” The 79-year-old inmate fell in his cell at the MCI-Norfolk prison in May, struck his head, and lost ...

A new Sundance film called “The Summit” explores the psychology behind what happened on the deadliest day on K2, known as the world’s most dangerous mountain. On August 1, 2008, 25 climbers set out to ...

His first hit of K2 was offered up as a birthday present, “a way to escape, to leave the monotonous state I found myself in,” Iran Diaz wrote in a letter to Correction Commissioner Shawn Jenkins.