Climbers attempting the world's second tallest mountain were due to fork out $5,000 each under a planned price increase ...

Here's some good news for climbers planning to visit the Karakoram this year. Pakistan's threat to triple permit prices is on hold until at least 2026.

Further Italian summits were made by the South Tyroleans Tamara Lunger and Klaus Gruber, while Radek Jaros from the Czech Republic has now completed the tour of all fourteen 8000ers. Lino Lacedelli ...

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 ...

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 ... criticism and doubts - the ...

It was the group’s second attempt at climbing K2 this winter, in a season that has already seen three other climbers die in the area. Bulgarian Atanas Skatov’s body was picked up by a ...

SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018 ... summit through chest-deep drifts. After that tour de force, no one doubted Purja was a leading ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...

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 ...

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2, his essential gear, the food he eats on every climb, his best advice and more for his MJ5. The first phase included Annapurna, Dhaulagiri ...