K2

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.

The end of the Polish expedition concludes the attempts on 8,000ers for the 2017-2018 winter season.

On Saturday, Urbubko set off early morning to attempt the Savage Mountain—in winter, by himself, without telling his expedition mates.

On January 25, Elisabeth Revol and Tomek Mackiewicz ran into trouble on the 9th highest peak in the world when the latter became snow blind and frostbitten. A massive rescue operation is currently underway.

In 1909, Prince Luigi Amedeo, an Italian Duke with a penchant for exploration, led the first major expedition to K2, the world’s second highest mountain and still arguably the hardest 8,000-meter peak to climb. One hundred years later, in 2009, director Dave Ohlson set out to document that year’s attempts on K2. It should be required viewing for any climber interested in high-altitude mountaineering.

Stangl is not the first mountaineer to concoct a summit daydream, though his courage in coming clean should be noted as highly unusual.