Yesterday, we wrote that the alpinists on K2 are enjoying a little solitude before the arrival of commercial expeditions. The solitude will not last much longer. According to Pakistan’s newspapers, ...
Given a possible weather delay, the climbers currently heading for the summit of K2 could reach it during the third week of August. That would become the mountain's first August summits since 2011, ...
A Norwegian climber defended her decision to continue a record-breaking series of climbs last month after encountering an injured porter who later died during her ascent of K2, the second-highest ...
A Norwegian mountaineer has denied allegations that members of her climbing team walked over a dying porter and did nothing to help him during their record-breaking ascent of K2 in Pakistan last month ...
An investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world's most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following allegations that dozens ...
ISLAMABAD - An investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world's most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following allegations ...
Two elite, famed mountaineers have died on K2. The Japanese Embassy in Islamabad reported that Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, fell from approximately 24,500 ft. on the second highest ...
An investigation has been launched into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of the world's most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following allegations that dozens ...
The foundation of elite mountain climber Nirmal Purja has announced it is bringing a team to Pakistan's K2 next year to clean up "rotting food and human waste" that is "frozen into the ice and ...
Mt. Everest is the world's tallest peak. But some mountaineers, like Garrett Madison, say it isn't the hardest to climb. Hundreds of people summit Mt. Everest each year, and you don't need to be an ...
K2, the second-highest peak in the world, has remained relatively free of the commercial circus common on Mount Everest, but this year the number of climbers ballooned. Thus far in 2022, some 200 ...