Author: Jason Black

Delighted to let everyone know that Jason has reached Islamabad today and is therefore on track to arrive at Terminal 2 Dublin Airport around 8.30pm tomorrow Wednesday 1st August 2018 where his family will be eagerly waiting on him. A homecoming welcome has been arranged at the Market Square in Letterkenny at 6.30pm on Thursday…

Listen below to Jason’s update from the K2 2018 expedition on Friday 27th July… With over 120km trek done from basecamp the team are just over 50km (2 days) from Askole in Pakistan where they will encounter their first civilisation in quite some time. From there it’s a jeep ride to Skardu and an onward…

It’s hard to know how I feel tonight – I’m leaving what’s been my home for the past month and while it’s far from a five star hotel instead a single tent pitched on an active bortoro freezing cold glacier, it’s been good to me this time round.. and I’ve weirdly loved it.. each night…

“ It was incredible and more” K2 lived up to its reputation over the period of the climb testing physically & mentally beyond belief. Years as a mountaineer you read about the high altitude technical challenges of K2 like the vertical climb up the bottle neck, the frighting traverse below the hanging serac, black pyramid…