Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, reports that the team is in great spirits in the following dispatch from K2: “Hello! This ...

Alex Gavan K2 is one of 14 mountains in the world more than 8,000 metres (26,246ft) in height Since the first attempt in 1987-1988, just a handful of winter expeditions have been attempted on K2.

Numerous successful K2 summits were registered on the 26th of July, sixty years after the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world carried out by the historic Italian expedition.

A Polish expedition hoping to complete the first winter ascent of the world's second-highest mountain, K2, says one of its climbers appears to have launched an unauthorised solo attempt.

Many climbers have tried and failed to scale K2. Kiyoshi Furuno, the former president of the Japanese Alpine Club, was involved in planning this expedition from the beginning. He said that the ...

Today marks the birthday of one of Japan's great climbers, Masatsugu Konishi. After a long career, he disappeared on Manaslu ...

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was also part of the expedition but did not summit). The Dutch team, including leader Wilco Van Rooijen, Cas van de Gevel, Ger McDonnell (the first Irishman to summit K2), and Pemba Gyalje ...

Alex Txikon announced today that he will make a second attempt on winter Annapurna. As in 2023-24, Mattia Conte of Italy will ...

This year, he embarked on his ninth K2 expedition. And K2 is "definitely harder than Everest by many measures," he told Business Insider. K2 "has been called the mountaineer's peak, whereas ...