Higinio “Quino” Gonzalez bucked the stereotype of the backcountry guide, immersing himself in opera and languages before he ...

Yudai Suzuki is one of those Japanese climbers who pursue excellence in modern exploratory alpinism by keeping an ...

Jean-Christophe Lafaille was well-known for his bold, often solo ascents of 8,000m peaks. But his brilliant career ended on ...

In 2023, he became the first person to ski down all four of Karakoram's towering eight-thousanders: Broad Peak, K2, Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II. And guess what? He’s not stopping there.

Gasherbrum I (8,080m / 26,509 feet): Also called Hidden Peak, the mountain rises in the Karakoram range. Broad Peak (8,051m / 26,414 feet): Near K2 and named for its extensive summit ridge ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks.

Michele Fait certainly didn't come from nowhere. He was a skier with a curriculum of high class descents, such as Shisha Pangma 7900m, Gasherbrum II from 7800m and from some 6000m peaks in Perù, to ...

Oxygen-free climbing refers to the process of scaling a mountain, from beginning to end, without using supplementary oxygen ...

Additionally, there are eight-thousanders in Pakistan—K2 (8,611 metres), Nanga Parbat (8,125 metres), Gasherbrum I (8,080 metres), Broad Peak (8,051 metres), and Gasherbrum II (8,034 metres)—while one ...

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