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Rope fixers have begun securing the lower section of the normal route of 8,125m Nanga Parbat. Some independent climbers have begun their acclimatization. On the Rupal Face, David Goettler, Boris ...

Reinhold and Günther Messner tried to climb the legendary Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas during an expedition in 1970. There seem to be no limits to their ambition and motivation but then mother nature ...

When two climbers were stranded near the summit of Nanga Parbat last winter, they sent out a desperate call on their satellite device. A hundred miles away, a Polish team of extraordinary climbers ...

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 ...

Pakistan’s pride Naila Kiani climbed an 8,126-metre Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth highest mountain, around 10:00 am PST Sunday. In doing so, Naila became the first-ever Pakistani woman to summit ...

It is an inborn lust in the humankind to vanquish the wild and invincible. Every vantage point achieved precipitates his passion to 'get' the precipice, may it be Mount Everest, K-2, Nanga Parbat, ...

Out for an adventure to Rama lake in the shadows of the mighty Nanga Parbat In about three hours from Gilgit, is the small town of Astore, the launching pad for Tarshing, Deosai Plateau and Minimarg.

A multinational team of three climbers reached the summit of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan around 3:40 p.m. on February 26, signifying the first time the 8,126-meter (26,660-foot) mountain has been climbed ...

In the fifties a group of men attempted to ascend the highest peak on earth. In the same year, as the first ascent of Mount Everest succeeded, the German climber Hermann Buhl single-handedly managed ...