According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...

Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners ... of rising cloud up over K2, and as it drifted over the summit, periodically obliterating my view of the mountain, it would sweep ...

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 ...

is affecting the country where K2 sits - then one would have to say that this is shocking news. Just as it must be shocking from a human point of view... from that of the man Stangl. The fact that ...

After losing his longtime climbing partner in an accident in Hokkaido in 2015, Hiraide is now plotting to conquer K2, the world’s ... to present magnificent views to audiences.

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 ...

SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018. Following the pandemic shutdown of 2020, the company found an unexpectedly robust market for Winter K2 ...

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 ...

undisturbed – as with mum on K2.” In 2015, Tom was dubbed the new King of the Alps after he became the first person to solo climb all six major north faces of the mountain range in one winter.

After ascending the K2 in Pakistan, the world’s second highest peak, in 2022, Benoni alpinist Warren Eva and his friend, John Black, are gearing up to climb the Annapurna 1 in Nepal. The duo ...

John Black and Warren Eva at the summit of the K2 in 2022. After ascending the K2 in Pakistan, the world’s second highest peak, in 2022, Benoni alpinist Warren Eva and his friend, John Black ...