Jim Curran`s opening two sentences bluntly summarize his book and capture the compelling nature of his story: ”In the summer of 1986 nine expeditions converged on K2, the world`s second highest ...
Two Dutch adventurers who survived a deadly ice avalanche that killed 11 other climbers on K2, the world's second highest mountain, were airlifted to a Pakistani hospital Monday, the team's spokesman ...
This is the latest edition of disaster happening to those climbing the world's highest peaks. Graham Bowley writes a riveting narrative of the sequence of events that killed 11 climbers and porters in ...
K2 MOUNTAIN is earth's second-highest mountain, is notoriously difficult - and sometimes deadly - to climb. So where is it, and how did it get its name? Here's all you need to know. K2 is part of the ...
High-altitude adventurer Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to ski down from the summit of K2, descending from the world’s second-highest mountain on Sunday. Bargiel cruised down from the ...
Reaching the peak in the harshest of seasons is considered one of the greatest challenges in mountaineering. By Zia ur-Rehman and Sameer Yasir KARACHI, Pakistan — Some climbers call it “the savage ...
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K2 was first surveyed in 1856 by Colonel T.G. Montgomerie, who named it as the second peak (K2) in the Karakoram range. The mountain's name, Mount Godwin-Austen, honors Henry Godwin-Austen, an early ...