"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the ...

It cannot be put down to chance that extremely experienced mountaineers such as Romano Benet and Nives Meroi needed 12 years to climb K2 (even ... another certainty of these K2 days : of those who ...

Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain, which boasts a terrifying death rate of more than 20%. Officials had previously planned to triple climbing fees, meaning ...

Vanessa O'Brien, the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent and the first American and British woman to climb the second-highest mountain in the world, explains why K2 is a ...

SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018 ... brought along his fiancée. American Colin O’Brady came with a resumé of record-setting endurance ...

A member in a group of seven, who paid one-seventh of a $12,000 collective permit to climb K2, would now pay $5,000 individually -- nearly a 300% increase. The other four Pakistani 8,000’ers ...

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2, his essential gear, the food he eats on every climb, his best advice and more for his MJ5. The first phase included Annapurna, Dhaulagiri ...

They say a winter climb is particularly dangerous because of the unpredictable and rapid change in weather conditions. Winter winds on K2 can blow at more than 200 kph (125 mph) and temperatures ...