Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima have reached the West Face of K2. While K2’s normal Base Camp is starting to fill, the Japanese climbers remain isolated at the foot of the West Face.

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...

A Port Dickson-born adventurer became the first South-East Asian to summit the world’s second-highest peak, K2, a deadly mountain that some think makes Everest looks like child’s play.