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

Hinkes had planned to climb with Alison Hargreaves, but during the first weeks on K2, they went their separate ways. Two other teams wanted to ascend the Abruzzi Route. One was an expedition from ...

After losing his longtime climbing partner in an accident in Hokkaido in 2015, Hiraide is now plotting to conquer K2, the world’s second highest peak, by a new route up the west face with a new ...

With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first ... First climbed by a Japanese expedition in 1982, in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit.

“Hiraide considered this climb his biggest challenge.” Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and avalanche prone, with far fewer successful summit attempts than on Mount Everest. Hiraide is a ...

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.

Pakistani military helicopters continued to search for three missing climbers on the world’s second highest mountain K2 on February 8, as hope of their survival faded rapidly. Muhammad Ali ...

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2, his essential gear ... that’s the last mountain and I would like to open the route from the Nepal side," Purja told Men's Journal.

K2, topmost of the Himalayas-adjacent Karakoram ... Purists groused that he was climbing standard routes using supplemental oxygen, a style not much different from that of tourists.

a private team led by Garrett Madison stepped onto the summit after climbing the Polish Glacier Direct route, an aesthetic and far less climbed, technical route with similarities to K2.