K2 has often flashed its savage side. One of the most famous disasters came in the summer of 1995. We examine the 1995 K2 disaster in a two-part series.

Detailed Planning For Historic Climb. The elite climbers embarked on their K2 journey highly prepared. In 2017 the pair established a remarkable new route on the Northwest Face of Sispare, after ...

Clash: Compare and contrast K2 (Abruzzi route) to Everest (South Col route) from a climbing perspective.You have done both. O’Brien: Really, they couldn’t be more different.First, you have ...

But Greg Child, who climbed K2 in 1990 by a harder route than the Abruzzi, says, “8 p.m. is about when I reached the top. An experienced climber ought to be able to get down in the dark.

Detailed Planning For Historic Climb. The elite climbers embarked on their K2 journey highly prepared. In 2017 the pair established a remarkable new route on the Northwest Face of Sispare, after ...

It had been decided before their arrival that all the climbers at base camp would follow the standard Abruzzi route that winter. On Dec. 26, Purja and his team stuffed their packs with rope, ...

This incident was not new for me as 30 years ago, I had an accident between camp 1 and camp 2 on the Abruzzi route. K2 is called the mountaineers’ mountain.