At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she has become the first woman in ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this ...

"It's an extraordinarily rough landscape," Gavan told the BBC in his Bucharest home, surrounded by books and climbing gear. So unforgiving are the conditions on K2, part of the Karakoram Range ...

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 ...

After losing his longtime climbing partner ... his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide said he felt overwhelmed by the compelling power of the mountain when he went on a ...

K2 stands 28,251 ft. making it the second highest mountain in ... The most common route on K2 is the Abruzzi Spur, named after the Duke of Abruzzi who attempted the climb in 1909.

A group of mountaineers is currently experiencing some extremely difficult moments on K2. Marco Confortola and circa ten other mountaineers have been ... renowned for being the hardest on the entire ...

Heavy snow damaged camps and equipment on K2, a peak that only around 300 people have managed to climb ... top of the mountain, which has blocked ropes and damaged tents on the route.

SKARDU - French mountaineer Benjamin Vedrines counted every second as he made history's fastest-ever ascent of K2 ... record climbing Pakistan's Broad Peak -- the world's 12th highest mountain ...