Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the first ascent of the world's second highest peak. In the years since, K2 has often flashed its savage ...

Numerous successful K2 summits were registered on the 26th of July, sixty years after the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world carried out by the historic Italian expedition.

Our guide to the best mountaineering books of all time picks out 10 seminal works that have informed and inspired generations ...

Thame is a beautiful Himalayan hamlet located to the farther southwest of Everest, right below the sacred Khumbi-Yuhla.

Pakistan has felicitated the team of Nepalese mountaineers for making a history by reaching the world’s second highest mountain peak, K2, in winter. Located on Pakistan’s side of Karakoram range, K2 ...

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