Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain ... summer climbing season by a whopping 36%, jumping in ...

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A climbing team from Washington, led by Jim Whittaker, of Seattle, was preparing an assault on K2 in Pakistan.

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she has become ... only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the top of the second ...

Climbers' harebrained endeavors to make risky first winter ascents of K2 were rife with ego and ... and their standard climbing routes repeated, refined and finally industrialized.

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 ...

Something of a 'legendary grandfather' in Himalayan climbing circles, he was best known for making ... Rick was "on fire for a potential new route up K2, the mountain of mountains," remembers Jerry.

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high ... by a rope about 6,300 meters up the mountain.” “I am not able to confirm ...

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2 ... excited for Cho Oyu because that’s the last mountain and I would like to open the route from the Nepal side," Purja told Men's Journal.