The Cesen/Basque Route is on K2’s south-southeast spur. This route leads to the Shoulder at 7,600m, and from there, it shares the same route to the summit as the Abruzzi Route (Southeast Ridge).

The Austrian alpinist and skyrunner had originally claimed to have reached the summit of K2 on 10 August, and first details talked ... without competitions, on new routes, up "minor" summits, in ...

Hiraide buried a portrait of a smiling Taniguchi in the snow at the summit ... after opening a new route on its south face. Talking about his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide ...

With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman ... in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the summit. To reach the top of the second highest ...

The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto Zerain at ... so a lot of people were lost on the mountain on the wrong side, wrong route — and then you have a big problem,” Van ...

A Port Dickson-born adventurer became the first South-East Asian to summit the world’s second-highest peak, K2, a deadly mountain that some think makes Everest looks like child’s play.

Steindl also said that July 27 was the only day in this season on which conditions were good enough for mountaineers to reach the summit of K2, which explains why there were so many climbers eager ...