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Nives Meroi and Romano Benet achieved the first summits on K2 since 2004. Images of the couple and K2 courtesy of Nives' website (click to enlarge).

ExplorersWeb Week in Review

Posted: Jul 30, 2006 10:29 pm EDT

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It's been another action packed week in the world of high adventure. K2 was summited last week for the first time since 2004 while this weekend an Irish K2 climber was hit by rockfall and awaits evacuation. Gnaro spoke to ExWeb about his upcoming Annapurna expedition, and there was a story about the Beijing to Lhasa train - not so easy to catch according to an American Everest climber just back from China.The Arctic expeditions' lists have been updated with the addition of 14 explorers who have reached the North Pole...

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