High-altitude trekking in Ladakh isn ... Karakoram peaks and even a glimpse of K2 on a clear day. Acclimatise properly, or you won't make it past base camp. Not all Ladakh treks leave you gasping ...
Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the 2015 movie is the mountain ...
Second in maximum height to the Himalayas and located right next door, the Karakoram Mountains are home to the notorious K2 ... you will camp in areas like the Amin Brakk Base Camp, which sits ...
Sherpa Café in Crested Butte held a celebration last week to welcome the “Year of the Snake” in Nepalese, Indian and Tibetan cultures. With a feast of Nepalese and Tibetan food, the café closed to ...
The Everest Base Camp trek is one of the most sought-after trekking undertakings in the world, drawing in thousands of ...
On 23 June the Italian mountaineer Michele Fait lost his life skiing from Camp 2 on the Cesen ... skiing down the Cesen route on K2. His skis slipped on a sheet of ice and then hit some rocks, ...
Born in 1948, Casarotto was one of the strongest mountaineers of his time. He died on 16 July 1986 whilst returning to Base Camp from his final K2 solo attempt. At the time his body disappeared into a ...
According to the 2021 book “Camp Century: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice,” authored by Danish historians of science Kristian H. Nielsen and ...