K2: Triumph And Tragedy K2: Triumph And Tragedy

K2: Triumph And Tragedy

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Publisher Description

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest. It is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks.

Jim Curran came to K2 as a climbing cameraman with an unsuccessful British expedition, but stayed on through the climbing season. This is his account of the dramatic events of that summer, a story of ambitions both achieved and thwarted on a mountain which all high-altitude climbers take the most pride in overcoming. In 1986 K2 took its toll of those ambitions.

Curran vividly describes the moments that contribute to the exhilaration of climbing on the world's most demanding mountain, and he assesses the tragedy of that summer with compassion and impartiality.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2013
April 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hodder & Stoughton
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Nashgoldwing ,

K-2.

FANTASTIC true-life tale on the successful & tragic assault on K-2. Extremely well-written. Death & success all rolled into one great narrative.
NoshirHooty.

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