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K2 Breaking News: Sergi Mingote Injured – Rescue Ongoing

Angela Benavides

16/01/2021

K2 Winter 8000ers

While all eyes look to the summit of K2, an S.O.S. call has been issued from lower down on the mountain. Sergi Mingote has suffered a fall b...

K2: An Anxious Wait for Summit News

Angela Benavides

16/01/2021

K2 Winter 8000ers

It's past 4 pm in Pakistan -- sunset is in just over an hour -- and summit news has not yet arrived. Mingma G and Chhang Dawa Sherpa reporte...

K2: Climbers Past the Bottleneck

Angela Benavides

16/01/2021

8000ers K2 Winter 8000ers

The "Nepali Force" team are progressing swiftly toward the summit of K2. At around 9:30 am local time, the all-Nepali team checked in from t...

K2 Summit Night: They’re Off!

Angela Benavides

15/01/2021

8000ers K2 Winter 8000ers

And away we go. The push to the summit of winter K2 begins at 1 am Pakistan time (3 pm Eastern, 8 pm GMT today). At least 10 climbers, all f...

K2: Camp 4 Reached…No-O2 Climbers in C3…Summit Push Tomorrow?

Angela Benavides

15/01/2021

K2 Winter 8000ers

Mingma G said that he would climb K2 for himself, his country, and his Sherpa community. So far, he has kept his promise, and his hard work ...

The World’s Most Dangerous Places – Part 2: Too Wild

Martin Walsh

15/01/2021

Adventure Travel

The second in our two-part series, Too Wild looks at a selection of countries and regions where the primary danger is the environment. Wheth...

K2: The “Nepali Force” Ties Winter Altitude Record

Angela Benavides

14/01/2021

K2 Sherpa Winter 8000ers

The weather on K2 was slightly better today than forecasts predicted, so climbers shook off the cold and continued to hurry up the Abruzzi S...

K2: O’Brady, Others Hit By Rockfall

Angela Benavides

13/01/2021

K2 Manaslu Winter 8000ers

The mountaineer's familiar cry of "Rock!" sounded often on K2 today, as a number of climbers left Base Camp on their second acclimatization ...

K2: Are Purja’s Plans to Paraglide from the Summit Too Risky?

Angela Benavides

13/01/2021

K2 Winter 8000ers

In July 2019, Nirmal Purja led the only successful summit push on K2 that summer. He was at the peak of his glorious chain-ascent of all 14 ...

Russian Woman Sets Longest Under-Ice Swim Record

Rebecca McPhee

12/01/2021

Arctic

Yekaterina Nekrasova, 40, has broken the world record for the longest under-ice swim. She set the record on -- or under -- Lake Baikal in Si...

K2: It’s All Over For Carlos Garranzo

Angela Benavides

12/01/2021

K2 Karakorum Winter 8000ers

After a long night of vomiting, and now with a kidney ailment, Carlos Garranzo has given up on K2 and will be evacuated from Base Camp asap....

Six Rangers Killed in Congo’s Virunga Park

Jerry Kobalenko

11/01/2021

Mountain Natural History

Six rangers were ambushed and shot to death yesterday in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park. The 7,800-square-kilometre reserve, a UNESC...

K2 Exclusive: Alex Gavan Reports From Base Camp

Angela Benavides

11/01/2021

K2 Winter 8000ers

Today, ExplorersWeb reached Alex Gavan by phone at K2 Base Camp, where the mood is rather somber, despite the gorgeous day. The damaged gear...

K2: Chaos at Camp 2

Ash Routen

10/01/2021

K2 Karakorum Winter 8000ers Winter Himalaya

After a week at Base Camp waiting for the storm winds to drop, Nirmal Purja and company hurried to Camp 2 today, only to find tents and equi...

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A Brief Climbing History of Nepal’s Highest Peaks

Apar Datta

09/06/2020

8000ers Everest Himalaya

Nepal is home to one of the world's dangerous mountain systems known as the famous Himalayas. Ranging from 2,000 meters to the top of the wo...

Lake Baikal 2020 Crossing: Short Talk with Adventurers

Roland

31/03/2020

Adventure Travel Arctic

Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia) is the world’s largest lake by volume and every winter, it freezes over. Its sheer size (636km long) offers an...

Return of the Freeride. Freeride World Qualifier in Russia

Mountain Planet

23/02/2020

Reviews Skiing

Do or do not. There is no try. Master Yoda Now freeride Jedi get together in Russia, to take part in Freeride World Qualifier 2*...

Marcel Korkuś sets New World Record in Altitude Diving

eversub

26/01/2020

Mountain

On December 13, 2019, the Polish diver Marcel Korkuś dived at an altitude of 6,395 m above sea level, setting an absolute world record in al...

Paragliding from the two summits of ELBRUS – Elbrus East 5621m & Elbrus West 5642m

THOMAS LAEMMLE

08/12/2019

Adventure Films Adventure Travel Alpine style Climbing Mountain

Paragliding from both tops of Mt Elbrus (5621m & 5642m) in summer 2019 In June 2019 I got the chance to visit the remote North ...

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