By Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
ISBN-10: 0767932609
ISBN-13: 9780767932608
An exciting chronicle of the tragedy-ridden heritage of mountaineering K2, the world's so much tricky and unpredictable mountain, via the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top
At 28,251 toes, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram variety of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it because the final fulfillment in mountain climbing, with solid cause. 4 occasions as lethal as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers for the reason that 1954. In August 2008 11 climbers died in one thirty-six-hour interval on K2–the worst single-event tragedy within the mountain's historical past and the second-worst within the lengthy chronicle of climbing within the Himalaya and Karakoram levels. but summiting K2 is still a adored target for climbers from all around the globe. earlier than he confronted the problem of K2 himself, Ed Viesturs, one of many world's most desirable high-altitude mountaineers, considered it as "the holy grail of mountaineering."
In K2: lifestyles and dying at the World's most deadly Mountain, Viesturs explores the outstanding heritage of the mountain and of these who've tried to overcome it. whilst he probes K2's so much memorable sagas in an try to illustrate the teachings realized by way of confronting the basic questions raised by means of mountaineering–questions of probability, ambition, loyalty to one's teammates, self-sacrifice, and the cost of glory. Viesturs is familiar with the mountain firsthand. He and well known alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and have been approximately killed in an avalanche that despatched them sliding to nearly yes demise. thankfully, Ed controlled to get right into a self-arrest place together with his ice ax and prevent either his fall and Scott' s.
Focusing on seven of the mountain's such a lot dramatic campaigns, from his personal afflicted ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair tourists alike will locate unforgettably compelling. With pictures from Viesturs's own assortment and from old assets, this is often the definitive account of the world's final mountain, and of the teachings that may be gleaned from suffering towards its elusive summit.
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