It is the only mountain above 8,000m - of which there ... Alex Gavan Tamara Lunger will also be climbing K2 Flanked by vast glaciers and thrashed by sub-zero winds, as well as frequent icefalls ...
The Nepali climbers are the first to summit ... record by becoming the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second highest mountain, in winter. Mountaineer Nimsdai Purja, a member of ...
The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation from a helicopter and reported that the two Japanese “were connected by a rope about 6,300 meters up the mountain.” ...
Mountaineers have been paying tribute to two experienced climbers who are missing on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, are two of Japan’s ...
on the second highest mountain in the world on July 20th ... to attempt pioneering a new route on the West Face of K2. They planned to climb alpine style – carrying minimal gear and going ...
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 ...