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 ...

Climbers Warren Eva and John Black chat about their experience on Annapurna. They discuss crowds, oxygen use, airlifts, and ...

Everest and K2. The push to Annapurna ... These conditions make climbing the mountain more difficult and dangerous. The Sherpa team tasked with setting the route with fixed rope, Imagine Nepal ...

Summit bids have begun in earnest on Annapurna. Annapurna I is the 10th highest mountain in the world, standing at 8,091 meters (26,545 feet) in the Himalayas o ...

Thame is a beautiful Himalayan hamlet located to the farther southwest of Everest, right below the sacred Khumbi-Yuhla.

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 reveal how the crux impacts the overall grade of a route and consider famous examples from climbing history ...

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 ...

Finally, one team is willing to attempt a new route on an 8,000'er. An Italian trio will do a new partial line on Annapurna, up the Northwest Spur.

Last August the body of the famous italian mountaineer Renato Casarotto was found in the De Filippi glacier, K2. We received ... It is one of the hardest routes in the Himalayas and the Karakorum. I ...