THIS supplementary volume contains reports on the scientific results of Mr. Conway's adventurous journey, with his map of the mountain region between Rakipushi and Golden Throne, through which he ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

“I have to go on climbing, not the least to accept Kei’s death,” he thought at the time. His last climb with Taniguchi was in 2013 to 7,611-meter-high Mount Shispare in the Karakoram Rang ...

In July 2015 British alpinists Jon Griffith and Andy Houseman made the first ascent Link Sar West, a 6,938m summit in Pakistan’s Karakoram. The two climbed the Northwest Face via their route Fever ...

According to the company, the two were climbing an unexplored route on the west face of K2, an 8,611-meter-high peak in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan on July 27. They had passed the 7,500-meter ...

The eight-thousanders are the world's 14 tallest peaks, each boasting a summit higher than eight thousand feet / 26,246ft and all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges.

The soldier with the sub-machine gun had just left our small bus. We were travelling on the Karakoram Highway, which is generally thought to be the most dangerous in the world — dangerous ...

It hurts to see crevasses in the glaciers, and bare rock where there was once only ice. ‘If it’s too hot in the Himalayas, ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

She said this during her presentation titled ‘From the Karakoram to the Himalayas – Climbing in the Wake of Climate Change’. “It has gotten a lot drier and warmer. At altitudes of 7,000 to ...

The ice hockey matches of Karakoram Winterlude Season Seven being held at the scenic tourist destination of Hunza in Gilgit-Baltistan, ...