After losing his longtime climbing partner in an accident in Hokkaido in 2015, Hiraide is now plotting to conquer K2, the world’s second highest peak, by a new route up the west face with a new ...

Alex Gavan Tamara Lunger will also be climbing K2 Flanked by vast glaciers and thrashed ... rope lines at various points up their ascent route. The two mountaineers aim to reach base camp by ...

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 from the north), while Hans ...

Mountain journalist Yukio Kondo, who is a friend of the two climbers, said, “Hiraide considered this climb his biggest challenge.” Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and avalanche prone ...

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she has become the first woman in the world to climb all fourteen 8000m peaks without the use ... in its ...

Heavy snow damaged camps and equipment on K2, a peak that only around 300 people have managed to climb. Calling off the ... ropes and damaged tents on the route. The snowfall had covered ropes ...

The journey up the King of Mountains is complex, but Arnette helped Insider break down the key areas of K2's most commonly-used route, via the Abruzzi Spur. Here's what a typical climb up K2 might ...

K2 stands 28,251 ft. making it the second highest mountain in the world, just 778 ft. shorter than Mt. Everest. K2 is also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, or Chhogori. Located in the Karakoram ...

The eight-thousanders in order by height: Mount Everest (8,848m / 29,029 feet): The highest peak on Earth, located on the ...

K2, topmost of the Himalayas-adjacent Karakoram ... Purists groused that he was climbing standard routes using supplemental oxygen, a style not much different from that of tourists.