High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video from Mountain Disasters revisits the July 28, 2019, tragedy on K2, where a ...

Serge Hardy didn't call off his attempt on K2 as earlier news from the mountain suggested. He turned to supplementary oxygen from the Bottleneck onward and summited on August 12, one day after the ...

Becoming the first person to summit K2 in winter, thus, loomed as the last great unachieved feat in mountaineering – “the last first,” as it were. In 2020, Icelander John Snorri set out on that ...