"It's an extraordinarily rough landscape," Gavan told the BBC in his Bucharest home, surrounded by books and climbing gear. So unforgiving are the conditions on K2, part of the Karakoram Range ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...

The Nepali climbers are the first to summit K2 during its dangerous winter season ... are considered the backbone of the climbing industry around the Himalayas, and regularly help foreign ...

Vedrines plans to climb K2 without oxygen, in a one-day speed ascent. He will then paraglide from near the summit. “It’s not the number of mountains I climb, it’s more about the journey on ...

SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018. Following the pandemic shutdown of 2020, the company found an unexpectedly robust market for Winter K2 ...

You've got different tracks in, so the track into Pakistan to get to K2 base camp involves traveling over a glacier. A glacier is harder to climb, you've got mixed rock, which makes twisting an ...

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 ...

He has a lot on his mind these days. 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 ...

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 peaks without the use of ...

They "meticulously planned and trained for their K2 expedition, underscoring their dedication to pushing the boundaries of high-altitude mountaineering", the ACP said. During this summer climbing ...