Despite initial concerns about a potentially empty mountain because of the earlier India-Pakistan conflict, Nanga Parbat had at least some climbers on the normal Kinshofer route. They enjoyed a ...

Denis Urubko and Maria Cardell are in Pakistan to open a new alpine-style route on Nanga Parbat's Diamir Face. Here, we examine the climbing history of this formidable 4,000m wall. Nanga Parbat ...

News from Nanga Parbat: Simone Moro and Denis Urubko continue to explore their hopes and the mountain itself. Yesterday they ventured to beyond 5800m to reach the base of the couloir which they will ...

On 12/01/2012 Simone Moro and Denis Urubko acclimatised at 5400m on the Diamir Face of Nanga Parbat. Their attempt at the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat will be via the line attempted by Messner ...

GILGIT: This winter’s first expedition team comprising two Pakistani and two European mountaineers and accompanied by 75 local porters on Sunday started developing a new route to climb the killer ...

After five of his Ukranian compatriots were brutally murdered alongside five other trekkers at Nanga Parbat, Ukranian Ambassador Volodymyr Lakomov became the first official from his country to visit ...

GILGIT: Renowned Russian climber Denis Urubko and his wife Maria Cardell successfully summited Nanga Parbat (8,126m) in alpine style while also charting a new route for ascent. Mr Urubko, with his ...

Two climbers have successfully completed what has been described as the last great unclimbed route in the Himalayas. Rick Allen, from Aberdeen, and Sandy Allan, from Newtonmore, ascended the peak of ...

Tom Ballard will never climb Everest. Before his death on Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat was confirmed earlier this month, the prodigious British mountaineer would joke that he had been scaling peaks since ...

Two climbers have successfully completed what has been described as the last great unclimbed route in the Himalayas. Rick Allen, from Aberdeen, and Sandy Allan, from Newtonmore, ascended the peak of ...