[citation needed] The mountain has become popular with organised commercial expeditions, due to its relative ease of ascent and scarcity of objective dangers.

[4] In 1955, Germans Reiner Diepen, Eduard Reinhardt and Jochen Tietze made the first successful ascent of Spantik via the Chogolungma Glacier up the southeast ridge.

[6] In 1985, a Dutch expedition made the fourth successful summit of Spantik, and the first ascents by female climbers Antoinette Briët, Sabine Deneer, and Dr. Margreet Hogeweg.

[8][9] In 1989, a Swiss-German expedition saw the next successful summits by female climbers, made by Irene Oehringer, Ursula Heynert, Eva Höllinger, Gerhild Kurze, and Monika Weber.

[citation needed] In July 2011, Spantik was climbed by a team of mountaineers from the Army High Altitude School Rattu.

[citation needed] In 2012, Abdul Jabbar Bhatti led the China-Pakistan Friendship Expedition to a successful ascent of Spantik in honor of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan.

[17] On July 17, 2019, Selena Khawaja, a 10 year old girl from Abbottabad reached the summit, becoming the youngest person to scale Spantik and any peak over 7,000 meters in the world.

[23][24] In June 2024, Japanese climbers Atsushi Taguchi and Ryuseki Hiraoka went missing during their attempt to summit the peak in alpine style.