Altitude: Gasherbrum II

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Summer to Fall: Climbing Action Continues

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Long gone are lovely summer days in Karakoram and perhaps the busier post-monsoon climbing season in Nepal as well. Nonetheless, a handful ...

Summer 2017 Update: GII & Broad Peak Summits, K2 Teams Ready for the Push

Friday, July 21, 2017

Unpredictable weather in Karakoram. K2 in particular is playing the game of 2015/16, when climbers didn’t even get a full chance to launch ...

Nanga Parbat Summits, Summit-bids on Broad Peak and Gasherbrums

Saturday, July 08, 2017

Kim Hong Bin and Lakpa Sherpa endured several days of cold and hunger at 7200m on Nanga Parbat and were finally able to reach the top, yest...

Summer 2017: Nanga Parbat Mazeno Ridge Attempt, Kinshofer Route Summit-bid Thwarted, Progress in Karakoram

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Bad weather thwarts the summit push on Nanga Parbat Kinshofer route. Several climbers have been forced to turn back from C4. The adverse co...

Summer 2017: No Summits on Nanga Parbat, Mazeno Ridge Summit-bid, More Teams in Base Camps

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

There is more to the Nanga Parbat summits story . Expedition leader Mingma Gyalje Sherpa wrote in a Facebook post that they were definitel...

Summer 2017: Nanga Parbat Mazeno Ridge, K2 Ski Challenge, Gasherbrum New Routes and More

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

A smooth start to the Pakistan climbing season thus far, where bureaucratic and logistical issues aren’t often unexpected otherwise. One of...

Summer 2016 Wrap Up: Summarizing Karakoram Season

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Summer 2016 climbing season basically ended few weeks ago, but a new route attempt on Gasherbrum I SW Face kept the action rolling for a bi...

Summer 2016: Summit Pushes Continue on Broad Peak, GII; Czech Climbers Acclimatize to 7500m on GI | Updated

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

It’s a wrap on K2. There have been summits on Nanga Parbat. Broad Peak summit-push continues. A few climbers are still out there on GII nor...

Summer 2016 Summit Push Updates: Final-Bids on Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak

Monday, July 25, 2016

Summer 2016 has so far been a difficult climbing season in Karakoram and Western Himalayas. Apart from ongoing quest on Nanga Parbat and Br...

Summer 2016: Bad Weather Break and Preparations for Main Round of Summit-Bids

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Bad weather halted climbing activities on all 8000m peaks for a week. Apart from usual snow, clouds and strong wind at altitude, teams repo...

Irritated by Commercialization of K2? Watch Out for These Expeditions on Gasherbrums

Thursday, July 14, 2016

K2 has traditionally been the ‘big thing’ of Karakoram climbing season, but with Mountain of Mountains pretty much occupied by commercial i...

Summer 2016 | Nanga Parbat Summit Push Underway, Slow Progress on Other Mountains

Saturday, July 09, 2016

Summer climbing action is slowly kicking in, as first summit push of the season has been launched on Nanga Parbat. Yannick Graziani, Ferran...

Summer 2016 | Majority of Climbers Have Reached Base Camps, Start Acclimatization and Route Fixing

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Majority of climbers have reached their respective Base Camps. For Nanga Parbat, it was quick two-day march from Karakoram Highway, while K...

Summer 2016 | Climbers ‘Blacklisted’, Deported from Pakistan

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Climbers face a set of odd bureaucratic issues – some often repeated, others entirely novel – each year, when they come to Pakistan. The st...

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