"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing ... hit by a falling rock and sustained ...

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 ...

The attempt to return to climbing's true roots: by honest means and work, work, work. This, as always, is our only secret." Oscar Cadiach, Manel de la Matta, Jordi Corominas, Jordi Tosas and Valentí ...

SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018 ... team above the Black Pyramid, a bulwark of rock and ice guarding the approach to the high camp.

At 13, she started rock climbing. Alison Hargreaves in October ... The 1995 tragedy is one of the most tragic events of K2's climbing history. Hargreaves was likely blown off the mountain.

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she has become the first woman in the world to climb all fourteen 8000m peaks without the use of ...

A glacier is harder to climb, you've got mixed rock, which makes twisting ... so it's not always climbing steep. Weather is much more unpredictable on K2 and I would say the technical climbing ...

K2 casts its shadow. Photo ... succumbing to altitude while trapped in a prolonged storm on the Shoulder. The Youth Ready to Rock Sport climbing course is designed to help young climbers (11-17 year ...

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 ...