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Japanese woman who scaled the world's 14 top peaks says she wants to share joy

Naoko Watanabe, the first woman to summit K2 three times, has also climbed the world's 14 highest peaks

The Independent UK

K2 climber killed by rockfall while descending from world’s second tallest mountain

Guan Jing had reached the summit just a day earlier

The Independent UK

British mountaineer says K2 challenge is ‘one of the world’s toughest’

British-Bangladeshi mountaineer Akke Rahman hopes to reach the summit before the end of July.

Evening Standard

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The Savage Mountain is becoming the Scorched Mountain: soaring heat is changing the game for climbers in the Karakoram

Record temperatures in Pakistan have conspired to make some of the world's highest peaks even more treacherous this year

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Want to climb K2? It's time to seize the day, as officials delay move to triple Karokaram’s climbing fees

Climbers attempting the world's second tallest mountain were due to fork out $5,000 each under a planned price increase

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The most beautiful mountains in the world: from K2 to the Matterhorn and beyond

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of the Karakorum and Himalayas

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“If you really love the thing you are doing, you must be willing to die” – new season of Extreme podcast explores why people risk lives to summit mountains

The BBC’s Extreme: Peak Danger series explores the thrilling, yet deadly, world of high-altitude mountaineering

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Why you should swap Everest base camp’s crowds for its rival’s spiritual beauty

Avoiding the crowds and commercialisation of Everest, Kate Eshelby navigates the rugged terrain of northern Pakistan for a truly untamed wilderness adventure

The Independent UK

There’s no Olympic gold for it, but a French climber has more than halved the K2 ascent speed record

French climber Benjamin Vedrines summits K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, in just under 11 hours

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Jon Stewart pushes VA to cover troops sickened by uranium after 9/11. Again, they are told to wait

Comedian Jon Stewart and troops sickened by uranium have ended a meeting at the Department of Veterans Affairs angry that once again they have been told they will have to wait to see whether the VA will connect their illnesses to the toxic base where they were deployed shortly after…

The Independent UK

Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium

Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

The Independent UK

Norwegian mountaineer says her team tried to save porter who died on K2

Kristin Harila rejects allegations of neglect based on drone footage of climbers walking over man during record ascent

The Guardian - UK

Mountaineer accused of stepping over dying Sherpa in pursuit of K2 record

A top mountaineer has denied her team offered no help to a dying Sherpa and stepped over him in their efforts to summit Pakistan’s K2 mountain and secure a new world record.

Evening Standard

Record-breaking mountaineer denies climbing over dying porter on K2

Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten man during record ascent

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Lawsuit seeks records of toxic exposures at Uzbek air base

Veterans’ advocacy groups have sued the U.S. Department of Defense seeking records of toxic conditions at an air base in Uzbekistan blamed for causing cancer and other illnesses among American troops who served there in support of the war in Afghanistan

Birmingham Post

Regional law firm chooses Hull for its latest expansion

Truth Legal has taken offices in city's K2 Tower

ABC News

Friends of Australian mountaineer Matthew Eakin prepare to retrieve his body from K2 in Pakistan

Experienced climber Matthew Eakin died on K2 in Pakistan earlier this year. His family and friends have raised more than $74,000 to fund a mission to bring him off the mountain.

France 24

K2, the world’s second-highest mountain peak, is covered in garbage

Videos published in July 2022 show piles of garbage left behind by climbers on K2, the highest summit in Pakistan and the second-highest mountain in the world. After a particularly hot summer with an unprecedented number of visitors, the slopes of K2 were weighed down with litter, posing a threat…

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Portishead man airlifted off K2, Pakistan's highest mountain

Saadat Mumtaz, 48, took on Pakistan's highest mountain in memory of his mum.

The Independent UK

Australian and Canadian mountain climbers found dead on K2

Three people have died on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain peak, so far this year

ABC News

Tributes flow for Sydney mountain climber Matthew Eakin who died on K2

Friends and family are paying tribute to a Sydney man who was found dead in northern Pakistan.

The Guardian - AU

Australian mountain climber Matthew Eakin one of two men found dead on K2

The bodies of two mountaineers, Eakin and Canadian man Richard Cartier, found on the world’s second-highest mountain in Pakistan

ABC News

Australian mountain climber Matthew Eakin's body found on K2

The body of Australian climber Matthew Eakin has been found on the world's second-highest mountain, where he and a Canadian man went missing over a week ago.

Daily Mirror

Two women become first ever to summit deadly mountain that kills 25% of climbers

Samina Baig and Naila Piani, from Pakistan, became the first two women in their country to summit K2, a deadly mountain attempted by less than 400 climbers overall

The Independent UK

Women climbers from Pakistan and Iran reach K2 summit

A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran appear to be the first females from their countries to reach the top of K2, one of the world’s highest and most dangerous summits

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