"The Last First" is not a story of unabashed glory like those previous climb-every-mountain documentaries. Here the glory is ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in ...

GILGIT: The documentary film The Last First: Winter K2, which chronicles the tragic fate of legendary climbers Moham­mad Ali ...

By January 2005, all the world’s tallest mountains – the 14 peaks that stretch above 8,000 meters – had been summited in wintertime, the most dangerous time of year for climbing. All except for one, ...

Amir Bar-Lev's documentary is less about the sport than about how natural spaces are corrupted by human folly.

“The Last First: Winter K2” was the first screening of the Sundance Film Festival. The director, Amir Bar-Lev, described it ...

The Last First: Winter K2 offers stunning cinematography as it dives into the politics and murky ethics of mountaineering ...

Winter K2 review - mountaineers compete with veteran climbers and inexperienced tourists to land an historic winter ascent at K2.

ISLAMABAD (AP) – A spokesman for a Russian mountaineering team seeking to be the first to climb K2 in winter says it has abandoned the attempt after one of its members died on the mountain. The 15 ...

Located in Pakistan’s part of the Karakoram range, K2 is the last of the world’s 14 tallest mountains—all higher than 8,000 meters—to be climbed in winter. It is considered by far the most difficult ...

K2 is the second-tallest mountain in the world, and it’s the second-most dangerous mountain to climb as well. The mountain, which straddles the border of Pakistan and China, is 28,251 feet tall and ...