In the photo below, taken in Skardu, he stands beside Jorge Egocheaga of Spain. Naila Kiani of Pakistan summited K2 last year and is now returning to the mountain to lead a cleaning expedition.

"It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you," American alpinist George Bell said of 8,611m K2. Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the ...

the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there ... due to an "illness apparently not related to the mountain" according to Valen Girò (pictured in ...