Question: Can you recommend an expedition company which leads a trip to the K2 base camp in Pakistan? Is this a more difficult trek than the Everest base camp? Many thanks. Adventure Adviser: The most ...

ONE day last June, I roped up to a porter and we leaped over crevasses until we reached the side of K2, the second-tallest mountain on earth and one of its deadliest. We scrambled up a few hundred ...

Nine years ago, Yolo Superior Court Judge Paul Richardson fulfilled a lifelong dream of viewing Mount Everest from a nearby mountaintop. He returned to that part of the world this summer to hike to ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) on Tuesday organised a consultative workshop of representatives from various organisations and tour operators to explore ways to curb ...

Trekking to K2 base camp is magical. The journey begins at the village of Askole, travels along the raging Braldu River, past the snout of the Biafo Glacier and eventually onto the top of the Baltoro ...

A frost-bitten Italian mountain climber dragged himself down K2 to base camp yesterday, aided by three fellow mountaineers, as rescue helicopters were stopped from plucking him off the mountain ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) to hold another consultative meeting of stakeholders’ representatives and tour operators on Wednesday to discuss the issue of increasing ...