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What will it ultimately take for a team to bag the first winter summit of K2?

The mountains are now free of climbers. Another season, with summits, deaths, rescues and other drama comes to an end.

As the weather has improved in the Karakoram, there have been all sorts of developments.

This is the third death in two weeks to come out of the climbing teams in Pakistan.

A tragic death, the details of which are still becoming clear.

Veteran Himalayan and Karakoram climber-chronicler Alan Arnette updates us on the status of the 2018 climbing season in Pakistan's Karakorum

Veteran Himalayan and Karakoram climber-chronicler Alan Arnette gives us an early update on the goings-on of the 2018 climbing season on Pakistan's 8,000-meter peaks.

Alan Arnette makes the case for why Everest is still as real a deal as ever.