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 ...

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 ...

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.

Christian Stangl, the Austrian alpinist who had claimed the only K2 ascent in this pre-monsoon season, admitted yesterday to not having reached the summit, as had been contested by a part of the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...