ISLAMABAD (AP) – A spokesman for a Russian mountaineering team seeking to be the first to climb K2 in winter says it has abandoned the attempt after one of its members died on the mountain. The 15 ...

Italian climbers Matteo Della Bordella and Marco Majori have achieved the first winter ascent of Via Casarotto on the Goretta Pillar of Fitz Roy (3,405m), a historic milestone in Patagonian alpinism.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — K2’s “savage” peak beckons the daring, but rare is the climber who answers the call in winter. Dwarfed only by Mount Everest, K2 is the world’s second highest peak at 8,611 meters (28 ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A team of Polish climbers has set off to attempt the first-ever winter ascent of K2, the world's second-tallest mountain. The team flew to Pakistan on Friday. K2 is 8,611 meters ...

Climbers have summited K2 after an exhausting 20-hour push from Camp 3. Mingma G has led the summit climb, and all the other teams still on the mountain followed to share the trail breaking and rope ...

Sonu Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks on the top of K2 on 16 January at 5pm. Photo: Seven Summit Treks While their political leaders back home in Kathmandu fought tooth-and-nail for power, ten Nepali ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A team of climbers from Nepal on Saturday become the first mountaineers to successfully complete a winter attempt on the summit of K2, the world's second tallest peak. The group ...

Today, Saturday 16 January 2021 at 16:58 local time, a team of 10 Nepalese mountaineers completed the highly coveted first winter ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world and the last ...