On Aug. 23, 2011, Kaltenbrunner became the first woman ever to climb the world’s 14 highest peaks — Mount Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri I, Manaslu ...

Mountaineer Samina Baig has become first Pakistani woman to successfully climb the world's second highest peak K2. Samina Baig and her Pakistani team successfully summited the savage peak of K2 at ...

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 ...

Vanessa O'Brien, the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent and the first American and British woman to climb the second-highest mountain in the world, explains why K2 is a ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago Julie Tullis became the first British woman to reach the summit of the Himalayan mountain K2, the second highest mountain in the world and one of the most challenging for climbers.

Julie Tullis was the first British woman to climb an 8,000m peak, but tragically died after summiting her second 8,000er, K2, in 1986. She was a long-time member of the Sandstone Climbing Club (SCC) ...

If you’re a woman looking for a really low-volume boot, K2’s new Cortex 125 W should be on your radar. The adjustable 96-98mm ...

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 ...

Julie Tullis was the first British woman to climb an 8,000m peak, but tragically died after summiting her second 8,000er, K2, in 1986. She was a long-time member of the Sandstone Climbing Club (SCC) ...