Sadpara acknowledged the challenge of climbing K2 and that, for many hikers, picking up after themselves becomes secondary to simply surviving. However, he added that part of mountain climbing's ...

Alex Gavan Tamara Lunger will also be climbing K2 Flanked by vast glaciers and thrashed by sub-zero winds, as well as frequent icefalls, avalanches, and rock-falls, a successful winter ascent will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rescue attempts are extremely risky on K2, even on the southeastern ridge, which is the most common route climbers take to the top. The western face is a more vertical and exposed rock face ...