Category : Winter Himalaya

Updated: Who is Really Going for Winter K2 This Season?

Angela Benavides

04/12/2019

8000ers K2 Winter 8000ers Winter Himalaya

Two months ago, it seemed that K2 would be busier than ever this winter. But the main players are still waffling for a variety of reasons. ...

Winter K2 Preview: Between Mountain Excellence and Commercialization

Angela Benavides

11/09/2019

8000ers K2 Winter 8000ers Winter Himalaya

Winter K2 has become the great unsolved problem of the Himalaya. As such, it has caught the attention of those wishing to "conquer" the ulti...

Txikon Interview, Part II: What Really Happened to Nardi and Ballard

Angela Benavides

15/04/2019

8000ers K2 Winter 8000ers Winter Himalaya

The most-discussed aspect of Alex Txikon's winter K2 expedition did not even take place on that mountain. It was the search-and-rescue opera...

K2 Quest Ends: Txikon Back in Base Camp

Angela Benavides

17/03/2019

8000ers K2 Winter 8000ers Winter Himalaya

As it often does, the wind ultimately decided success or failure in the mountains. Today, Alex Txikon, Pansang and Chappal Sherpa waited...

Txikon Searches on Foot for Nardi and Ballard

Angela Benavides

04/03/2019

8000ers K2 Winter Himalaya

Alex Txikon and three of his team, together with Pakistani climber Ramat Ullah Baig, finally made it by helicopter to Nanga Parbat Base Camp...

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

Angela Benavides

04/02/2019

8000ers K2 Winter Himalaya

Not a great time for Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard on Nanga Parbat: Apart from the poor weather, they've lost their two Pakistani climbing p...

Tom Ballard Reports From Nanga Parbat, Part II

Ash Routen

02/02/2019

8000ers Winter Himalaya

Tom Ballard, Daniele Nardi and Co. continue to spend more time shoveling than climbing. Here, with light edits, the British climber gives us...

Tom Ballard Reports from Nanga Parbat

Ash Routen

30/01/2019

8000ers Climbing Winter Himalaya

Like K2, Nanga Parbat has also become known as a killer mountain because of the number of deaths on its slopes. Just last year, Tomek Mackie...

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

Angela Benavides

28/01/2019

8000ers K2 Manaslu Winter Himalaya

Yesterday, Manaslu experienced hurricane-force winds and six metres of snow -- "yes, six f#####g metres!" confirmed Simone Moro, who had ne...

Winter 8000’ers – Off They Go

Angela Benavides

21/01/2019

8000ers Manaslu Winter Himalaya

Despite gnarly weather, teams on K2, Nanga Parbat and Manaslu are either climbing or about to. K2 The two teams, led by Alex Txiko...

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