His last climb with Taniguchi was in 2013 to 7,611-meter-high Mount Shispare ... after opening a new route on its south face. Talking about his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide ...

Of insufficient route flags. Of disorganisation and (perhaps for ... but simply a repetition of what mountaineers have always known, above all when climbing a mountain such as K2. In the mountains, ...

Towering 8,611m and reaching into the heavens like a snowcapped pyramid, K2 is the world's second-tallest mountain (topped only by Everest) and arguably the hardest to climb. In Peak Danger ...

Heavy snow damaged camps and equipment on K2, a peak that only around 300 people have managed to climb ... top of the mountain, which has blocked ropes and damaged tents on the route.

Bogomolov went one hundred meters below the Cesen Route, using the fixed ... even known her husband planned to climb K2, ...

Mountain journalist Yukio Kondo, who is a friend of the two climbers, said, “Hiraide considered this climb his biggest challenge.” Kondo added that K2’s route is steep and avalanche prone ...

Climbers' harebrained endeavors to make risky first winter ascents of K2 were rife with ego and ... and their standard climbing routes repeated, refined and finally industrialized.