After 17 years, we look back at the 2008 K2 disaster, one of the deadliest tragedies in modern mountaineering, which saw 11 ...

News Climbing disaster on K2 Published: Aug. 03, 2008, 9:00 p.m. By Leslie Palma-Simoncek | For the Staten Island Advance ...

In this excerpt, he analyzes the 2008 K2 disaster, in which 11 mountaineers died while on an expedition. Oct. 13, 2009, 11:38 AM PDT / Source: TODAY books ...

It’s the fascinating tour de force of a book, “No Way Down: Life and Death on K2,” the story of how a lethal disaster unfolded among climbers in 2008 on the second-highest mountain in the world.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – After a painful descent on frostbitten feet, the last survivor of the mounteering disaster that killed 11 climbers on K2 reached base camp Tuesday as cloud and snow prev… ...

"No Way Down: Life and Death on K2" (Harper, $25.99) is the latest account of the most recent worst disaster in the great ranges of Asia.

Pakistani army helicopters airlifted two frostbitten Dutch climbers from K2 on Monday after a catastrophic avalanche on the world's second highest peak killed 11 mountaineers, officials said.

Rice said he knew when he set out for K2 that some climbers might not survive. It’s the nature of what they do. Along the way up the mountain, he watched a Serbian friend fall to his death.

I was too young to do that.” Rice said he had become friends with the 11 climbers killed in the avalanche. They had traveled to K2 from countries around the world.