An American party led by Larry Hall made their Base Camp on the Savoia Glacier. They had almost no contact with the teams using the usual K2 base camp site. Hall’s expedition wanted to climb the ...

Of the Dutch team, only Pemba remained at K2's base camp, pulling together the pieces of what went wrong over a horrific 48 hours.

Their bodies were “visible from an advanced base camp but they were not moving,” the company said. The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation from a helicopter and ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp this year, and they didn't really care about the summit. Or rather, they weren't there ...

Born in 1948, Casarotto was one of the strongest mountaineers of his time. He died on 16 July 1986 whilst returning to Base Camp from his final K2 solo attempt. At the time his body disappeared into a ...