"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 Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

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

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

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

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, ...

Everest might be the world’s tallest mountain but talk to any mountaineer who has climbed both, and it’ll be K2, the second highest peak on the planet, that makes them go misty-eyed. This staggering ...

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 ...

Lev. SYNOPSIS: K2’s first winter ascent claimed 5 lives, revealing modern alpinism’s struggles with commercialization, social ...