The Japanese climbers employed an “expedition style”, said Marco Bomio, who manages the village museum in the resort of Grindelwald at the base of the mountain. This summer, the museum is ...

Rescue efforts have been called off for two famed Japanese mountain climbers and photographers who fell from K2, the world’s second-highest peak, in Pakistan. Ishii Sports Co., which Kazuya ...

According to Alpinist, this is the first winter ascent of the grandiose face of the fourth highest mountain in the world. The Japanese team, led by 45 year old Osamu Tanabe, had attempted the S Face ...