Zdenek Hruby, current president of the Czech Mountaineering Association, has died in a fall while attempting a new route with Marek Holecek on Gasherbrum I. Read more »
Aiming to become the first father and son team to climb K2, the highly experienced New Zealand guide Marty Schmidt, and his son Denali, are missing presumed dead after a large avalanche struck a camp where they were spending the night. Read more »
It now seems certain that the three Iranians who completed a new route on the southwest side of 8,051m Broad Peak will not be coming back, their bodies remaining out of reach high on the mountain. Read more »
Descending from a failed attempt on Gasherbrum I in the Pakistan Karakoram, the famous Polish mountaineer Artur Hajzer has been killed in a long fall. Read more »
The accomplished French alpinists Aymeric Clouet, Christian Trommsdorff and Patrick Wagnon are currently returning to Skardu, seemingly having abandoned their goal of a new route, alpine-style, on the legendary west face of Gasherbrum IV. Read more »
Fears are growing for three mountaineers last seen relatively close to the summit of Gasherbrum I (8,068m) at around 2:00pm Friday the 9th March. Read more »
A small Polish expedition has been successful in making the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum I (8,068m), only the second of the five Karakoram 8,000ers to be climbed in the calendar winter season. Read more »
Today, February 2nd, 2011 at 11:28 am PKT (Pakistan Standard Time), The North Face Athletes Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and Cory Richards reached the Summit of Gasherbrum II at 8,035m Read more »
With her ascent of Gasherbrum I on the 3rd August, the Korean mountaineer, Oh Eun-sun, took a step closer to becoming the first woman to climb all 14 of the 8,000m peaks. She travels to Nepal this autumn to attempt the only summit now missing from her list, Annapurna. Read more »
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