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 ...

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she has become the first ... highest mountain in the world the alpinists arrived at Base Camp at the start ...

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 ...

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2, his essential gear, the food he eats on every climb, his best advice and more for his MJ5. The first phase included Annapurna, Dhaulagiri ...