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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 Nanga Parbat, critics still blame his younger brother Reinhold Messner for abandoning him for his own su...
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 on K2 that kept Pakistan on the tenterhooks for nearly two weeks. It also drew to a close the peril...
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, only a handful of winter expeditions have been made on the 8,611m mountain in the Karakoram massif on ...