When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually crowded with giants. Nearly all of them are clustered in the Himalayas and ...

Several teams have attempted Khurdopin Sar in the Karakoram, but a French pair who showed up without fixed plans finally ...

Bad weather has thwarted all attempts to reach the summit of Broad Peak and diminished hopes for K2 climbers, especially since the worst of the storm is yet to come. Further down the valley, the ...

On 14 October 2025 French alpinists Gaëtan Navarrete and Julien Priour made the first ascent of Khurdopin Sar (6,458m) in the ...

July 29 (UPI) --An international team is trying to rescue badly injured former Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier from a peak on Pakistan's Karakoram Mountains. A falling rock struck and ...

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Laura Dahlmeier has died after a mountaineering accident in Pakistan. Dahlmeier was on a trip in the region’s Karakoram mountains when she was trapped in a rockfall on ...

Photo/IC] At the age of 19, I had the honor to travel between China and Pakistan via the Karakorum Highway. During my study ...

The trail to the base of Amin Brakk, a great wedge of vertical rock that’s earned comparisons to El Capitan, doesn’t so much start as the community slips away—up from the barley fields of Kanday ...