Climbers on way to scale Karakoram range peaks.

Byline: Jamil Nagri

GILGIT -- International winter expedition teams are continuing their uphill struggle to scale some of the world's highest peaks - Gasherbrum I (8,034 metres), Broad Peak (8,051 metres) and K2 (8,611 metres) - in the Karakoram mountain range situated mostly in Gilgit-Baltistan, despite the rough weather conditions, according to expedition officials.

The Broad Peak winter expedition - comprising Russian mountaineer Denis Urubko, Don Bowie from Canada and former Miss Finland Lotta Hintsa - have set up Camp 2 at an altitude of 6,400 metres, said the officials

In a text message from a satellite phone, team leader Urubko said, 'I drink tea in tent Camp 2, 6400 metres, Weather OK but Don told [me, it'd be] bad on 20 January, new forecast.'

The team returned to the base camp on Sunday, waiting for the weather to impArove to start its new summit push.

Bowie wrote on his social media page about his experience at Camp 2, 'Denis Urubko's image of me taking my turn attacking the ice below Camp 2 a few days ago. We spent hours and hours fixing new rope and hacking out the old stuff - the latter a most tedious and mind-numbing task, where 15 minutes of work can sometimes yield only a metre of upward progress.'

On her Instagram page, Finland's Hintsa also wrote an update about her expedition so far, musing mostly about waiting and activities while waiting. 'Probably...