People are now slowly beginning to think about what happened during these last few days on K2. It seems as if the drama on K2 has now come to an end. Marco Confortola's return to Base Camp and flight ...

The company said on its Instagram account that the two men had been waiting at base camp at the ... considered this climb his biggest challenge.” Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and ...

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.

Alex Gavan Tamara Lunger will also be climbing K2 Flanked by vast glaciers ... various points up their ascent route. The two mountaineers aim to reach base camp by the turn of the year "I have ...

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing ... have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the top of the second highest mountain in the world the ...

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on ... base camp but they were not moving,” the company said. The captain of another climbing team on K2 checked the situation ...

Eventually, they'll reach K2's base camp proper ... or 2,000 feet of very technical rock climbing. Rope ladders are scattered along the route, and some people use supplemental oxygen along ...

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 ...

Kayuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima, who want to climb the West Face of K2 via a new alpine-style route, are on their way along ...

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 ...