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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...