As we moved up the glacier, Laila’s stunning northwest face slowly came into view, a steep, snow-covered pyramid descending 1,000 meters (4,921 feet) at a pitch-perfect 45-50 degrees before it ...

Italian adventurer Yanez Borella has cycled from Italy to Pakistan on his e-bike to climb 6,096m Laila Peak and then ski down from the summit. The 46-year-old Borella left Trento, Italy, on April ...

10 days after the first ascent of Yawash Sar II (6178 m) in the Karakorum and the subsequent first ski descent of the mountain’s west face, Polish mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel and his climbing partner ...

GILGIT: A four-member Polish winter expedition team has arrived in Pakistan to summit 6,096 meters Laila Peak in Hushe valley near Gondogoro Glacier here. The team members include Janusz Golab ...

It should have been a dream, almost too good to be true. One of those that provide a thousand emotions and memories that last a lifetime. But yesterday the coveted first ski descent of Laila Peak in ...

“Leonardo Comelli, 27, an Italian alpinist lost his life on Thursday while making a ski descent from the 6,096-meter high Laila Peak,” said Karrar Haideri, spokesman of the Alpine Club of Pakistan.

The idea to ski down K2 came to me when I had a glimpse of it during the first successful ski descent of Broad Peak in 2015,” he remarked. Published in The Express Tribune, April 22nd, 2021.