Of insufficient route flags. Of disorganisation and (perhaps for some ... experienced mountaineers such as Romano Benet and Nives Meroi needed 12 years to climb K2 (even if three attempts were 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 ...

K2 stands 28,251 ft. making it the second highest mountain in the world, just 778 ft. shorter than Mt. Everest. K2 is also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, or Chhogori. Located in the Karakoram ...

Heavy snow damaged camps and equipment on K2, a peak that only around 300 people have managed to climb. Calling off the ... ropes and damaged tents on the route. The snowfall had covered ropes ...

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 ... only 20 climbers have ascended ...

Alex Gavan Tamara Lunger will also be climbing K2 Flanked by vast glaciers and thrashed ... rope lines at various points up their ascent route. The two mountaineers aim to reach base camp by ...

After climbing nearly all of the most challenging ... Magic Line In 2004 Corominas conquered an insanely treacherous route on K2, known as the Magic Line. The Magic Line, located on K2’s SSW ...

Mountain journalist Yukio Kondo, who is a friend of the two climbers, said, “Hiraide considered this climb his biggest challenge.” Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and avalanche prone ...

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.

After his climb, the route become known as the Bonatti Pillar ... He then went on to lead the first winter ascent of K2, one ...