Madison Mountaineering is preparing for their summit push on K2 ... The Madison Mountaineering team is climbing the Abruzzi ...

The Austrian alpinist and skyrunner had originally claimed to have reached the summit of K2 on 10 August, and first details talked ... without competitions, on new routes, up "minor" summits, in ...

With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the top of the second highest ...

The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto Zerain at ... so a lot of people were lost on the mountain on the wrong side, wrong route — and then you have a big problem,” Van ...

Hiraide buried a portrait of a smiling Taniguchi in the snow at the summit ... after opening a new route on its south face. Talking about his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide ...

Romanian Alex Gavan, 38, and Italian Tamara Lunger, 34, are aiming to claim one of the last great challenges in the world of high-altitude mountaineering: the winter summit of K2. They will not be ...

Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and avalanche prone, with far fewer successful summit attempts than on Mount Everest. Hiraide is a three-time winner of the Piolets d'Or, an annual award ...

The Norwegian was heading for K2's summit to secure a world record and ... but it was "not possible" to get him back down the narrow route, which was crowded with other climbers.

The Madison Mountaineering team, led by Terray Sylvester, followed the northeast ridge route to ... reached the summit of Mt. Everest 14 times. He has also reached the summits of K2, Lhotse ...

Beating the previous record by 12 years, 18-year-old Nima Rinja Sherpa dedicated his achievement to his fellow Nepalese sherpas ...