They had almost no contact with the teams using the usual K2 base camp site. Hall’s expedition wanted to climb the Northwest Ridge. In 1991, Frenchmen Pierre Beghin and Christophe Profit ...

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 ...

On 23 June the Italian mountaineer Michele Fait lost his life skiing from Camp 2 on the Cesen route on K2. Michele was a good man. This was my first thought when, this morning, it was confirmed that ...

It was the group’s second attempt at climbing K2 this winter, in a season that has ... a crevasse attempting to make his way down to Base Camp. And last month, American Alex Goldfarb-Rumyantzev ...

K2, topmost of the Himalayas-adjacent Karakoram ... acclimatization process before making his final push. Just below Camp 1, climbing alongside veteran Chilean mountaineer Juan Pablo “JP ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp this year ... these crazed horses wanted to climb Chogori via the direttissima, the ...

Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain, which boasts a terrifying death rate of more than 20%. Officials had previously planned to triple climbing fees, meaning ...

You've got different tracks in, so the track into Pakistan to get to K2 base camp involves traveling over a glacier. A glacier is harder to climb, you've got mixed rock, which makes twisting an ...

Pemba — who has been painted as the hero of the K2 tragedy — managed to rescue Confortola and return to Camp 4. That evening he went out again to save Van Rooijen who had spent more than a day ...

Mountaineers have been paying tribute to two experienced climbers who are missing on K2, the world’s second ... the two men had been waiting at base camp at the foot of the mountain for a ...