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 ...

above all when climbing a mountain such as K2. In the mountains, and on this mountain in particular, climbers must be aware of and respect the difficulties and dangers and, at times, know how to ...

The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation from a helicopter and reported that the two Japanese “were connected by a rope about 6,300 meters up the mountain.” ...

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 ...

The world’s second-highest mountain looms even higher above ... SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018. Following the pandemic shutdown ...

After losing his longtime climbing partner ... his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide said he felt overwhelmed by the compelling power of the mountain when he went on a ...

The attempt to return to climbing's true roots: by honest means and work, work, work. This, as always, is our only secret." Oscar Cadiach, Manel de la Matta, Jordi Corominas, Jordi Tosas and Valentí ...

When a climber falls or wanders off the trail, it's an unwritten code of the mountain to leave them for dead, according to the film. The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto ...

Thirty years ago Julie Tullis became the first British woman to reach the summit of the Himalayan mountain K2, the second highest mountain in the world and one of the most challenging for climbers.

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2, his essential gear ... I'm very excited for Cho Oyu because that’s the last mountain and I would like to open the route from the Nepal ...