He was one of 11 climbers who died in one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history when an ice fall swept away fixed ropes on the peak in Pakistan. K2, known as the Savage Mountain ...

She reached the peak of K2 in the summer of 2014, becoming only the second Italian woman in history to do so without oxygen. But scaling K2 in the dead of winter when temperatures can fall to ...

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At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but ... describes ascending an unclimbed route on an 8,000-meter peak as “unimaginably difficult.” “The body’s functions ...

Two Japanese climbers have gone missing while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest peak. According to reports, the two mountaineers slipped and fell on the 8,611-meter-high ...

Polish mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel became the first person to ever successfully ski down K2, the second highest peak in the world, in July. Located in the Karakoram mountains in Pakistan ...

A Port Dickson-born adventurer became the first South-East Asian to summit the world’s second-highest peak, K2, a deadly mountain that some think makes Everest looks like child’s play.

The news is just in: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has reached the summit of K2. The Austrian mountaineer stood on top of the 8611m peak at 18:18 local Pakistan time, and shortly afterwards she was joined by ...

She followed it with Makalu in 2018, Annapurna in 2019, Dhaulagiri in 2021, Qomolangma, Lhotse, Qogir (K2), and Broad Peak in 2022, then Kanchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I ...

Speaking metaphorically, he said that it was "adventurous because we did not know which peak we would reach – Mt Everest or Mt K2." Neeraj, despite his season's best effort of 89.45m ...