Towering 8,611m and reaching into the heavens like a snowcapped pyramid, K2 is the world's second-tallest mountain (topped only by Everest) and arguably the hardest to climb. In Peak Danger ...

It cannot be put down to chance that extremely experienced mountaineers such as Romano Benet and Nives Meroi needed 12 years to climb K2 (even if three attempts were ... There is another certainty of ...

Polish climbers who were hoping to be the first to climb the world's second-highest peak in winter have been forced to cancel. Heavy snow damaged camps and equipment on K2, a peak that only around ...

Marco Confortola is currently descending to Camp 1 at 5900m in the company of an American mountaineer and a high altitude porter. Marco Confortola himself broke the news at circa 17.00 K2-time in a ...

SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018 ... brought along his fiancée. American Colin O’Brady came with a resumé of record-setting endurance ...

Mountaineer Tracee Metcalfe recently became the first American woman to climb all fourteen 8,000-meter ... (8,848m / 29,029 feet); K2 (8,611m / 28,251 feet); Kangchenjunga (8,586m / 28,169 feet ...

Both of them had items with the BASK logo.” The four Siberians came to K2 in the summer of 2006 to climb the Abruzzi Route.

They say a winter climb is particularly dangerous because of the unpredictable and rapid change in weather conditions. Winter winds on K2 can blow at more than 200 kph (125 mph) and temperatures ...

Picture: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne Ger Loughnane has called on Clare to conquer their K2, “The Savage Mountain ... acknowledged the hurlers for climbing their equivalent of Mount Everest in ...