Why you should swap overwhelmed Everest base camp for the near-spiritual beauty of K2 - Avoiding the crowds and ...

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 ...

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 ...

K2 (8,611m / 28,251 feet): Known as the "Savage Mountain," K2, the world’s second-highest peak is located on the Pakistan-China border in the Karakoram range. It is famed for its technical ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...