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Alex Txikon in Camp 2 on winter K2

K2 and Nanga Parbat Action is On!

Update, Feb. 26: Both K2 teams are back in...

Breaking: Weather Forecast Worsens on K2

An urgent new weather update for K2 has just...

Urubko: K2 Teams Have No Chance

As forecast, hurricane-force winds are currently pounding K2. The...

Hurricane Heading for Winter K2

"A Force 4 hurricane is heading towards K2, with...

Winter 8000’ers: K2 Climbers reach 7,000m, Nanga Parbat Castaways Wait, and Wait

The Russian/Kazakh/Kyrgyz team - aka the Eastern team --...

Winter 8,000’er Update: Two Quit Nanga Parbat

Not a great time for Daniele Nardi and Tom...

Winter 8000’er Update: Despair on Nanga Parbat, K2 Climbers Still Hopeful

Options decrease for winter teams with every day that...

Winter 8000’ers Update: Gale on Manaslu, East Face of K2 “Impossible”

Yesterday, Manaslu experienced hurricane-force winds and six metres of...

Winter 8000’ers: K2 Teams Unite

Alex Txikon’s and Vassily Pivtsov’s teams have joined forces,...

Winter 8000’ers: The Latest From Manaslu, Nanga Parbat and K2

One team has already started up Nanga Parbat, and...

Top 10 Expeditions of 2018: #1: Andrzej Bargiel Skis K2

Over the last 12 months, ExplorersWeb has documented incredible...

Winter Karakorum: Secrets and Rumours

Winter is coming; that, at least, we know for...
Alex Txikon during presentation of K2 Winter expedition 2019

Txikon, Russians Gear Up for Winter K2

[caption id="attachment_8571" align="alignnone" width="2789"] Alex Txikon announces his upcoming...
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High-Altitude Forecasting: The Weather Wizards of the Greater Ranges

High-altitude mountaineering has evolved since George Mallory gamely trudged...
Artem Braun Winter K2 2019

Winter K2: Artem Braun Says It’s Now or Never

After many headaches and uncertainties, the winter K2 expedition...
dam Bielecki

Adam Bielecki’s Next Big Goal. Hint: It’s not Winter K2

[caption id="attachment_7368" align="alignnone" width="1839"] Adam Bielecki climbs K2’s Black...
ladies of thin air

Updated: The Women of Thin Air

Luo Jing Update, October 25 A day after Luo Jing...
Alex Txikon winter Everest

Alex Txikon: Winter K2 is only an option – and not my first

Alex Txikon has changed his misty Basque Country homeland...

Denis Urubko: I’m going back to K2

By: Laszlo Pinter There is no doubt that Russian Denis...

The Greatest Goal: Teams Prep for Winter K2

In the times of overcrowding, massive use of bottled...

Luo Jing Becomes First Chinese Woman to Climb all 14×8000’ers

Update: October 5, 2018, Spanish news website Desnivel reports...

Sergi Mingote Targets his Second 8,000m Double-Header

[caption id="attachment_6926" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Testing the saturation of oxygen....

Poles Return to Manaslu East

An all-Polish team is heading to the Himalaya to...

From Savage Mountain to Tourist Peak: The Sad Decline of K2

By: Sebastian Alvaro Lomba Courtesy: marca.com Original translation: K2 Pakistan The season...

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