K2 2017 Season Coverage: Climbers Dodge Wild Weather
It is business as usual in the Karakorum. The weather is driving some teams crazy creating stop/start summits pushes on Broad Peak and the Gasherbrum while those on K2 seem to be taking their time to acclimatize. Broad Peak: Stalled … Again Òscar Cadiach stopped his attempt over the weekend due to deep snow above […]
K2 2017 Season Coverage: Weather Stalls Progress
Right on cue, bad weather moved into the Karakorum stopping a proposed summit attempt on Broad Peak and some rope fixing on K2. However, there has been progress in spots. Grace McDonald on Broad Peak with Furtenbach Adventures summed it all up perhaps for everyone in the Karakorum today: I made a stormy descent to base camp this […]
K2 2017 Season Coverage: Search Halted on Nanga, Monday Summits on Broad?
The Karakorum season is off to a sad start with multiple deaths. Meanwhile teams are hoping for Monday summits on Broad Peak and others reach Camp 1 on K2. Search Ends for Climbers Nanga Parbat: search ends After a helicopter search found avalanche debris at the last GPS transmission point for the Spanish-Argentinian team of Alberto Zerain […]
K2 2017 Season Coverage: Missing Climbers, Cheating Climbers, Weather Windows
The Karakorum season has begun in earnest with teams preparing to fix the route on K2 and those on Broad Peak waiting for the weather window to firm up before they attempt the summit. Also, there are missing climbing on two peaks: Nanga Parbat and Elbrus plus discord at base camps. Missing Climbers Elbrus An […]
K2 2017 Season Coverage: Teams Begin Climbing
The climbing season in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range is well underway with teams arriving at base camps and some already spending a few nights at Camps 1 and 2 during their acclimatization rotations. There are reports of significant snow on the mountains. K2 Teams have just arrived at K2 base camp. British-American Vanessa O’Brien reports that […]
K2 2017 Season Coverage
Using my experience of my successful summit of K2 in 2014 and covering the action in 2015 and 2016, I will once again be covering the 2017 K2 climbing season from my home in Colorado this year. I try to do it the same style as my annual Everest coverage but information is much more […]