K2 2018 Summer Coverage: Season Summary
The K2 2018 summer season has come to an end when the Austrian operator Furtenbach Adventures declared the weather window had closed and […]
Category: K2 2018 Coverage
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: K2 Ski Video, Attempts Come To An End
Monday, July 23, 2018 saw the few remaining climbers give up as poor weather once again took over K2. Perhaps some will […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: Record Weekend on K2 and a Death
It was a record weekend on K2 with over 60 summits breaking the record of 51 set in 2004. Another record set […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: Japanese Death on K2
Sad news just now from K2 that Mr. Kojiro Watanabe, 41, died on K2. He had summited along with his four Japanese teammates. It […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: First K2 Ski Descent!
Sunday 22 July 2018 saw another 32 summits on K2 taking the total for 2018 to 63, what I believe is the […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: More K2 Summits – Weather moving In
Following a near record day of K2 summits, more teams stood on top of K2 on Sunday July 22nd, 2018. Big weather […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: Good Day for K2 Summits, More to Come
July 21st 2018 was a good day for K2 climbers. 31 people summited – all from the Nepali company Seven Summits Treks (SST). […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: K2 Summits – Update 1
UPDATE 1: It’s a good day on K2 with many summits. There are 31 summits thus far on 21 July Saturday 2018. Seven […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: K2 Summits Expected over Weekend
As usual, tracking progress on the Pakistani 8000-meter mountains is like herding cats. I think I have an understanding of whats going […]
K2 2018 Summer Coverage: K2 Summit Push Delayed
Well, it looks like the heavy snow a couple days ago did delay some K2 teams on their summit push with most […]