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What was the 2008 K2 disaster? A tragic event in the history of the world’s second highest mountain

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 ...
Seattle Times

Mountaineers set off on foot to retrieve the body of a Chinese climber who died on K2

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a ...
MassLive

$9M worth of K2 seized as Mass. prisons battle synthetic drug surge amid spike in deaths

At the Shirley branch of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution this August, staff noticed a woman in the visiting room with her cheeks bulging. When they stopped the visit, a balloon was found in ...

South Dakota outpaces neighbors in fatal prison overdoses

South Dakota reported eight fatal inmate overdoses in 2025, primarily linked to synthetic K2, outpacing neighboring states with no confirmed prison overdose deaths.