Jon Griffith and Andy Houseman have recently returned from Pakistan, having made the first ascent of Link Sar West, a subsidiary top of Link Sar with an altitude of just under 7,000m. Read more »
Thirty-three years after a British attempt was thwarted just below the summit, Ondra Mandula and Jiri Pliska from the Czech Republic have made the first ascent of Uzun Brakk in the Karakoram, formerly referred to as Conway's Ogre. Read more »
A small Indo-British team of Susan Jensen from Scotland, Divyesh and Vineeta Muni (Mumbai) and Chamonix-based mountain guide Victor Saunders has made the first ascent of Chamsen, one of few remaining previously untouched 7,000ers in India. Read more »
An Indian expedition from the Kolkata section of the Himalayan Club has made the long awaited first ascent of Plateau Peak (7,287m) in the East Karakoram. Later, a second team, which originally had the same peak as its goal, was involved in an avalanche incident, resulting in air evacuation for Andy Parkin. 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 »
A team of young French alpinists has climbed a major new mixed line in alpine style on the 2,100m south-west face of Latok II in Pakistan's Karakoram range. Read more »
Three of America's most experienced mountaineers, Doug Chabot, Bruce Miller and Steve Su, have made the coveted first ascent of 6,400m Hispar Sar, an elegant pointed summit north of the Hispar Glacier. Read more »
The first largely-independent new route on Trango Tower in more than a decade has been completed by a four-man Russian team from the Moscow Mountaineering and Climbing Federation. Read more »
In a season marred by widespread poor weather and catastrophic flooding, the relatively few expeditions that made it to Pakistan's mountains have met with little success. However, several parties climbed interesting new ground in the Hushe region. Read more »
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