Altitude: Summer 2017

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

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 ...

The Mazeno Ridge search and rescue mission, unfortunately, didn't turn out to be successful. Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan were app...

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...

The helicopter couldn't fly again for two days due to bad weather in region. Skies cleared this morning and aerial search was resumed. ...

Search and rescue mission is underway on Nanga Parbat where Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan are unaccounted for since Saturday June 24th....

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

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

Update:- Expedition leader of summit party says, they couldn't identify whether they reached the true summit or not. More here . P...

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