Arnold Coster News Today

The latest list of permits issued by Nepal’s Department of Tourism includes a single unnamed climber willing to tackle the formidable south side of Cho Oyu. This does not mean a solo climber, but a single foreigner. Nepalese nationals don’t need to pay the royalty fees and are not included on such lists. Chinese authorities […]

“JOHN SNORRI SAVED MY LIFE TWICE. TELLING THE TRUTH IS THE LEAST I OWE HIM IN RETURN”    Tomaz Rotar The extreme sport of high altitude mountaineering despite its characteristic of testing human endurance to extremities has its peculiar appetite for controversies. Like all sports, it breeds its own intense competition and sometimes jealousies. I will narrate two incidents. Despite the discovery of body and funeral of Günther Messner in 2005, some 35 years after his disappearance on Nang...

Explainer: What could have happened to Ali Sadpara? Experts weigh in on elements leading to celebrated climber going missing on perilous K2 winter ascent The search for three missing mountaineers – including Pakistan’s iconic climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara – was officially called off on Thursday with families saying the trio should now be considered dead on the world’s second highest peak. The announcement by Sajid Sadpara, son of Ali Sadpara, draws the curtain on a dramatic tragedy o...

Four teams with around 60 climbers and sherpas between them have begun climbing the world’s second-highest peak.

Rivals race to summit K2 in winter AFP, ISLAMABAD Dozens of mountaineers have converged on Pakistan’s mighty K2 peak, vying to conquer one of the world’s last major climbing challenges — reaching the summit in winter. Four teams with about 60 climbers and Sherpas between them have begun climbing the world’s second-highest peak — known as the “savage mountain” — where winds can blow at more than 200kph and temperatures drop to minus-60°C. Since the first attempt in 1987-1988, on...

Dozens of mountaineers have converged on Pakistan's mighty K2 peak, vying to conquer one of the world's last major climbing challenges -- reaching the summit in winter.

ISLAMABAD: Chyang Dawa Sherpa is in Pakistan to attempt what no human has ever achieved before: A winter ascent of K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. He is not alone. More than five dozen climbers from countries including Nepal, the US, Iceland, and Spain have arrived in Pakistan in recent weeks to claim one of the last remaining great prizes in mountaineering. Of the 14 mountains that rise to at least 8,000 meters (26,246 feet), K2 at 8,611 meters is the only one unconquered during win...

Thirteen of the worlds 14 peaks taller than 8,000-meters have been climbed in winter. But one still remains unclimbed — the 8,611 meters K2, the worlds second tallest that straddles Pakistan and China. Climbers say that avalanches are an ever-present risk, and in winter temperatures can fall to -50C. Winds blow up to 200km/h that’s equal to cyclone Fani, the most severe storm that traveled more than 900 kilometers from the Indian state of Odisha and blew nearly two dozen tents at Everest’...