Scott Fischer was there with his expedition, and the group scoured the summit area of K2 with a telescope. But they didn't spot anything. From the Broad Peak Base Camp, Hillary then relayed the ...

The team also included a doctor and a base camp manager. Scott Fischer at K2 Base Camp. Photo: Scott Fischer The expedition was organized by the Russians and funded by the Americans. According to ...

Numerous successful K2 summits were registered on the 26th of July, sixty years after the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world carried out by the historic Italian expedition.

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

Many climbers have tried and failed to scale K2. Kiyoshi Furuno, the former president of the Japanese Alpine Club, was involved in planning this expedition from the beginning. He said that the ...

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was also part of the expedition but did not summit). The Dutch team, including leader Wilco Van Rooijen, Cas van de Gevel, Ger McDonnell (the first Irishman to summit K2), and Pemba Gyalje ...

We spoke with climber Nims Purja about climbing K2, his essential gear ... the only Nepalese food you can eat on all the expeditions. Everyone from the mountaineering community would know this!” ...