An interesting interview with Alison Hargreaves' husband JimBallard in today's Guardian G2 section.Hargreaves died while descending in a storm after successfullysummiting K2 and, as you may recall, was instantly villified by amainstream press

According to the Times Online, Tom Ballard, the son of Alison Hargreaves, is  to attempt to climb K2 – the notoriously difficult and statistically dangerous mountain where his mother died – later this year.Ballard, 21, is apparently training

tribute to his mother Alison Hargreaves who died on the peak in 1995. The attempt was announced in June and heralded by considerable media interest including an extensive interview on BBC radio.Despite moving to Switzerland with his father Jim and sister

As we told you back in June, Tom Ballard, the son of mountaineer Alison Hargreaves who died on K2 in 1992 is planning to attempt the mountain himself later this year and, at the same time, trying to become the first climber to summit the world

Sadly Hargreaves was better known for her death on K2 in 1995 thanever during her short life despite some impressive climbingcredentials including a raft of hard British female first ascents -the media seized on the issue of her being a mother with two

Following on from last week's newspaperfeatures on the recent tragic events on K2,that killed eleven climbers, last weekend's Observer Sports Monthlymagazine carried a typically well-researched and very readable analysisof the events by specialist mountaineering writer Ed Douglas...

't realise women were actively out there climbing stuff well before the late 20th Century and the likes of Julie Tullis and Alison Hargreaves. It wasn't all plain sailing though:'For those who chose to wear dresses, there was a range of possible skirt

', and has already made two attempts on K2 and one on Kanchenjunga. Observer interviewer Ed Douglas also talked to Alison Hargreaves before her successful but fateful ascent in 1995, so it's perhaps unsurprising that history casts something of a sobering

.Mountain CredentialsThose with long memories will remember the classic TL Torridon, British hill-walking jacket and the brand's involvement with the late Alison Hargreaves, but it has present focus too, with a head designer who cut her technical teeth creating many

K2 solo in July 1995 during a seasonwhich was marked out by tragedy. Most notably, top British climberAlison Hargreaves, who was originally climbing with Hinkes, chose todelay her summit attempt and died during the descent from the summit.That season