In July 2019, he stood atop Mount Rakaposhi, also in the Karakoram Range, with Nakajima, after opening a new route on its south face. Talking about his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route ...
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.
With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman in the world to have climbed ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the ...
This picture of Alex Gavan in July 2019 shows K2 in the background Two European mountaineers embark this week on a bitterly cold, week-long trek to reach base camp on the world's second highest ...
mountain this winter hoping to achieve the same feat. But one Spanish mountaineer has died after suffering a fall this weekend while descending. K2, which is only 200m shorter than Everest ...
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 ...
Anything over that, you really risk heading to a memorial at the bottom of the mountain. That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours. You know, when I'm looking ...
Askole sits in the region of Baltistan: home to five of the world’s 14 peaks above 8,000 metres and more than 100 surpassing ...
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 ...