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 ... another certainty of these K2 days : of those who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world's second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he ...

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 ...

Her early climbing experiences were in New Hampshire ... He was part of the American first ascent of K2 in 1978 and made the first ascent of Gauri Sankar in 1979, a giant of Nepal’s Rowaling ...

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 ...