In 1992, Scott and I got our first view of K2 not from Concordia, but earlier, when we hiked up a wooded hill out of our Paiju camp. All of a sudden, there the mountain was, sticking up into the ...

No more group fees During 2023 and 2024, K2 climbing permits were granted collectively to […] Two years ago, we reported that royalty fees to climb K2 had increased for the first time in 20 ...

It will go up after the summer climbing season by a whopping 36%, jumping in September from $11,000 to $15,000 on the famous South Col route. For Everest hopefuls, these fees are only the start of ...

*K2 is the second highest mountain in the world at 8,611m or 28,251ft. *It was first conquered by Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni, part of an Italian expedition, on 31 July 1954.

K2, often nicknamed "The Savage Mountain," is so treacherous that, as of August 2022, approximately 700 people have reached the summit, Climbing magazine reports. So far, at least 91 people have ...

Naperville’s Lucy Westlake is on a mission to break another mountain climbing record this summer — and maybe change the world as well. The 19-year-old said in an email this week that she plans ...

Outside magazine, November 1995 Climbing: The Last Ascent of Alison Hargreaves Why did the world’s finest woman alpinist never come off K2? By Greg Child On what seemed to be a perfect August ...

Kristin Harila conquered Everest, K2 and 12 other peaks above 8,000m in a non-stop expedition in three countries in half the time of the previous record-holder.

Rescue efforts have been called off for two well-known Japanese climbers who fell from K2, the world's second-highest mountain in Pakistan, according to Japanese mountaineering equipment shop ...