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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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Regional law firm chooses Hull for its latest expansion

Truth Legal has taken offices in city's K2 Tower

Birmingham Post

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.

ABC News

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…

France 24

Portishead man airlifted off K2, Pakistan's highest mountain

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

Bristol Post

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

The Independent UK

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.

ABC News

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

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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

Daily Mirror

Mum climbs deadly 6,000m mountain to inspire her son to always 'follow his dreams'

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita is an elite climber and has summited Mount Everes and K2, but since the birth of her son her climbing has taken a back seat but now she's set out to inspire him

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