K2 east face photo. For true adventure, look beyond the mountain's standard routes. Click on an image to see the FULL size with a caption. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. No one has climbed the East Face of the mountain due to the instability of the snow and ice formations on that side. . Here's a couple of pictures of climbers on the Japanese route before and after the traverse when the route leaves the ridge to follow the snow slopes. Jan 28, 2019 · Two days ago, Alex Txikon – whose team includes five Sherpa climbers – left Base Camp to explore K2’s East Face. On the south and southeast face of K2, the orthogneiss consists of a mixture of a strongly foliated plagioclase - hornblende gneiss and a biotite-hornblende- K-feldspar orthogneiss, which has been intruded by garnet - mica leucogranitic dikes. To see the full list of photos, see K2 Photo Gallery. Gasherbrum is a remote group of peaks located at the north-eastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya. The Face is broken by several buttresses, one of which, the right, is the cause of my optimism. The massif contains two of the world's 8000m peaks. 51420°E Image Type (s): Alpine Climbing Image ID:564882 2796 Hits 74. K2 East Face Closeup The East Face of K2, also known as the China Face, is a sheer wall of rock and ice that rises more than 3,000 meters from the K2 east face, taken by Duca degli Abruzzi, 1909 « PREVNEXT » om on Oct 18, 2009 2:24 pm Comments & voting Other parents Lat/Lon: 35. Access to this route is via the Chinese side and begins at K2 Glacier where it then climbs the Northwest Ridge before it turns through the rugged, rocky and snowy terrain of the Northwest Face all the way to the summit. It was a thing of beauty, set vertically. 29 K2 East Face Close Up Just Before Sunset From Gasherbrum North Base Camp 4294m In China [22 of 36] Jun 9, 2017 · The Northwest Face Route on K2 The Northwest Face Route of K2 was first ascended in 1990 by a Japanese team. I enthusiastically threw up my hands. Besides the East Face, the North Face has not yet been climbed either. Feb 14, 2018 · Carefully tied with a rope, we went through the icefall, skirted avalanche trays from K2’s “roof”, and at 10:00 stopped right in front of the east face. Oct 8, 2011 · Original file (1,464 × 2,169 pixels, file size: 784 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Public domain. Bottleneck (K2) High on K2: Seracs above the Bottleneck The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur (also known as Abruzzi Spur), the most-used route to the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, in the Karakoram, on the border of Pakistan and China. The wall is nightmarish even in summer due to its high exposure. The photographer died in 1933. But given how the big serac above the Bottleneck/Traverse on the normal route has shrunk over the last decade, I'm sure the massive seracs across the (lower) east face will fall off too, to some extent, and make a line there more feasible. Edit: Oh, and a bivouac. 92% Score 5 Votes Log in to vote Apr 2, 2025 · The world’s second highest peak remains much more difficult and dangerous than Everest, but it’s rapidly commercializing. 88084°N / 76. prwgk dbxw udl gmd miik xlbgdotu crwn wdzdj jhjc zdflcj