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Injury on K2, Everest Summit Push Next Week

A member of the K2 Polish team was injured by rockfall. While serious, he will continue climbing. Over on Everest, they remain […]

Winds continue to keep climbers in place or being very careful with limited acclimatization rotations. The forecast doesn’t look great for either […]

The winter climbs of K2 and Everest were progressing normally but with the recent rescue on Nanga Parbat, the activity paused to […]

The death of Polish climber Tomek Mackiewicz and the rescue of French climber Elisabeth Revol by the Polish K2 team had followers […]

By now, the story is well known and earning global headlines in both the mountaineering and mainstream press. Two climbers joined together […]

Many media outlets and multiple press reports plus posts on Facebook are describing a developing disaster scenario on Nanga Parbat for Polish […]

As expected the K2 team is making excellent progress while the Everest gang is about to re-engage climbing Everest. The climbers on […]

This week both the Everest and K2 team should make huge progress. Over on Nanga Parbat, the two-person team will attempt to […]

Progress when climbing 8000-meter mountains is often measured in small steps, and that is what we have this week. Also, it appears […]

Now that both the K2 and Everest teams are nicely established at their respective base camps, they are beginning to make progress […]