Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain, which boasts a terrifying death rate of more than 20%. Officials had previously planned to triple climbing fees, meaning ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

He will become the first South African to reach the summit of the Annapurna, which should be between April 20 and 25, weather permitting.

Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the 2015 movie is the mountain ...

Jackson Hole-based skier Veronica Paulsen came from the world of mogul skiing to making a name for herself as one of the strongest, hardest working, gutsiest skiers around. In 2020, Paulsen became the ...

Since summiting her first mountain, Kaltenbrunner said climbing ... to climb the world’s 14 highest peaks — Mount Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri I, Manaslu ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base ... 500m from base Camp where the remains of those who fell and died on the Great Mountain ...

In August the De Filippi glacier, located at the foot of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, brought to the surface the body of Renato Casarotto. Born in 1948, Casarotto was one of the ...

Nicole Economos Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela tells the stories of those who died in the 2008 K2 ... space as to the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, on the border ...