Altitude: Winter 2018

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Winter K2: End of Another Polish Attempt on The Mountain of Mountains

Monday, March 05, 2018

Polish team has decided to conclude the K2 winter expedition 2018 and start the return trip. The expedition manager drafted a list of cause...

Revisiting K2 Winter 2018: What Happened Thus Far and What Next?

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

It was a star-studded expedition consisting of Poland’s finest climbers. Inclusion of Denis Urubko was the icing on the cake. The expeditio...

K2: Denis Urubko Back in BC, Withdraws from the Expedition

Monday, February 26, 2018

Following an unsuccessful summit attempt , Denis Urubko returned to BC this afternoon. While precise details of his foray are still awaite...

A Rebellious [Unsuccessful] Summit Push on K2

Monday, February 26, 2018

There has been an interesting – rather implausible - development on K2 over the weekend. There was an unsuccessful summit push. It was a so...

Winter Everest Summit Attempt [Updated]

Friday, February 23, 2018

After month long preparations and a long wait at BC, its action time on Everest. Alex Txikon, Ali Sadpara and the five climbing Sherpa Temb...

Tomek Mackiewicz and Nanga Parbat: Seven Years of Love, Faith, Deceit and the Union

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Winter 2011 : Everyone is talking about Broad Peak, Gasherbrum I and GII, and rather a mysterious lone Russian on Nanga Parbat. And then t...

Rescue Mission on Nanga Parbat - Elisabeth Rescued to Skardu

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Tomek Mackiewicz and Elisabeth Revol are in need of help on Nanga Parbat. They launched summit-push from C3 (7300m) on Jan 25th. While prec...

Winter 2018: Everest Team on a roll, No Camp-1 on K2

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Winter teams on Everest and K2 are making good progress despite not-so-favourable conditions. It’s mandatory, nonetheless, as weather windo...

Winter 2018: Everest Teams on the way to C2, Few Details from K2, Nanga Parbat

Monday, January 15, 2018

Winter 2018 climbing season is progressing smoothly, as three teams work on the mountains at their own pace. Everest team is currently fixi...

History of Winter Climbing Everest

Monday, January 01, 2018

History of winter attempts on Himalayan peaks is a little more convoluted than their Karakoram counterparts. Firstly, because Nepal governm...

History of Winter Climbing K2

Thursday, December 28, 2017

“ We do not blame ourselves because we did everything that was humanly possible in those inhospitable conditions ,” - winter-climbing pione...

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

" It's the most wonderful time of the year. " Quite literally for the followers of ‘old-school’ Himalayan mountaineering. F...

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