"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 ...

In 1992, high on K2, French climber Chantal Mauduit was exhausted and snowblind. Over the next two days, several climbers ...

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 ...

Under the old system, one person in a seven-member group paid one-seventh of a $12,000 collective permit to climb K2. Under the new rules, they would now pay $5,000 each — nearly a 300% increase.

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...

The mountaineers were competing to become the first American woman to climb the world's 14 highest ... after peaks including Mount Everest and K2. "We would wish her all the very best for her ...

On Aug. 23, 2011, Kaltenbrunner became the first woman ever to climb the world’s 14 highest peaks — Mount Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri I, Manaslu ...

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 ...