Climbers' harebrained endeavors to make risky first winter ascents of K2 were rife with ego and tragedy, as well as intrigue and triumph. It's New Year's Eve, 2020, at K2 base camp, a tent ...

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After climbing K2 on his own in 11 hours without oxygen ... He has just done a five-day winter solo of the Dru, one of the great granite towers in the Mont Blanc massif near Chamonix.

The group stopped 10m below the top, and took the final steps together to be on the top simultaneously. K2 was the last of the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks not summited in winter.

ISLAMABAD--An aerial search was underway Sunday to find three experienced climbers who lost contact with base camp during what would be only the second winter ascent of K2, the world’s second ...

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 of ...