Finally, the Cesen route was completed to the summit in 1994 by Basque climbers ... cloud up over K2, and as it drifted over the summit, periodically obliterating my view of the mountain, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 18:18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria reached the summit of K2. In doing so she ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the ...

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.

The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto Zerain at 3 p.m., who was hiking solo. In the film, Norwegian climber ... lost on the mountain on the wrong side, wrong route — and ...

THE exultant climbers – three Sherpas and a Chinese – were descending the mountain after standing atop the world’s second highest peak, K2, when one of the Sherpas lost his footing on the ...

All the world’s highest peaks were conquered decades ago, and their standard climbing routes ... Winter K2 emerged as alpinism’s last great first: the world’s toughest mountain in the ...

In our recent article remembering French mountaineer Chantal Mauduit, we briefly touched on her 1992 rescue on K2 ... climbing again. Viesturs, Kieser, and Neal Beidleman continued fixing the ...