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K2, The Savage Mountain

Author : Charles Houston,Robert Bates
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493050253

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When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world's second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of terrible storms and illness stopped the team short of the 28,251-foot summit. Then on the descent, tragedy struck, and how the climbers made it back to safety is renowned in the annals of climbing. K2, The Savage Mountain captures this sensational tale with an unmatched power that has earned this book its place as one of the classics of mountaineering literature.

K2, The Savage Mountain

Author : Norman Handy
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783990487174

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This is the story of one man's travels through northern Pakistan, using Gilgit as a centre. You will be taken westward to the fascinating Kalash Valleys with a surviving unique culture, struggling to maintain their identity in the harsh and rugged mountains, bordering Afghanistan. The story continues to Baltistan and up through the Karakoram Mountains and the infamous Karakoram Highway that links the country to China via the Khunjerab Pass, the highest road border crossing in the world. The journey goes eastwards across the Deosai plateau which have an average elevation of 4,000m and the disputed areas of Jammu and Kashmir. Finally there is the ascent to base camp of K2, the world's second highest but most deadly of mountains.

K2

Author : John Barry
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : K2 (Pakistan : Mountain)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040674769

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Savage Summit

Author : Jennifer Jordan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061753527

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Savage Summit by Jennifer Jordan Pdf

Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs. In Savage Summit, Jennifer Jordan shares the tragic, compelling, inspiring, and extraordinary true stories of a handful of courageous women -- mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, poets and engineers -- who defeated this formidable mountain yet ultimately perished in pursuit of their dreams.

Ghosts of K2

Author : Mick Conefrey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781786070234

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Ghosts of K2 by Mick Conefrey Pdf

K2 is almost 800ft shorter than Everest, yet it’s a far harder climb. Many great mountaineers became obsessed with reaching its summit, not all of them lived to tell of their adventures. Capturing the depth of their obsession, the heart-stopping tension of the climb and delving into the controversy that still surrounds the first ascent, Mick Conefrey delivers the definitive account of the ‘Savage Mountain’. From drug-addicted occultist Aleister Crowley to the brilliant but tortured expedition leader Charlie Houston and, later, the Italian duo who finally made it to the top, Conefrey resurrects the tragic heroes, eccentric dreamers and uncompromising rivalries forever instilled in K2’s legacy. This is the riveting, groundbreaking story of the world’s deadliest mountain.

One Mountain Thousand Summits

Author : Freddie Wilkinson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101456132

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The account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster. One Mountain Thousand Summits reveals the true story of the K2 tragedy that claimed the lives of eleven men. Based on his numerous trips to Nepal and in-depth interviews he conducted with the survivors, the families of the lost climbers, and the Sherpa guides whose heroic efforts saved the lives of at least four climbers, Freddie Wilkinson's narrative uncovers what actually occurred on the mountain, while delivering a criticism of the mainstream press's incomplete coverage of the event, and an insightful look into the lives of the six Sherpas who were involved.

The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2

Author : Jennifer Jordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393079197

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The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 by Jennifer Jordan Pdf

"A fascinating tale…Readers who are into high-altitude adventure stories won’t be disappointed." —Associated Press In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an even more formidable challenge than Mt. Everest. Although close to middle age and inexperienced at high altitude, Wolfe, with the team leader, made it higher than any other members of the expedition, but he couldn’t get back down. Suffering from altitude sickness and severe dehydration, he was abandoned at nearly 25,000 feet; it would be another sixty-three years before the author discovered his remains.

The Ghosts of K2

Author : Mick Conefrey
Publisher : Oneworld Publications Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1780745958

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The Ghosts of K2 by Mick Conefrey Pdf

At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it is a far tougher proposition. Unlike Everest, there is no "Yak route" for commercial clients. It is hard climbing all the way from its base to its summit. K2 will kill you on the way up and kill you on the way down. Mick Conefrey tells the story of three extraordinary expeditions filled with riveting drama and unimaginable tragedy- Fritz Wiessener's controversial attempt of 1939, the disastrous American expedition of 1953, and the huge Italian expedition of 1954 on which K2 was first climbed. He captures the bold and eccentric characters - their friendships and rivalries, their guilt and betrayals. At the center of the narrative is Charlie Houston, who led the failed 1953 exhibition, who was forced to give up his ambition of ever reaching the summit, and who was haunted for the rest of his life by the ghosts of the world's most beautiful and lethal mountain.

K2, Triumph and Tragedy

Author : Jim Curran
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : K2 (Pakistan : Mountain)
ISBN : 0395485908

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This gripping story belongs with the classics of mountaineering. In 1986, nine expeditions attempted to climb K-2. Twenty-seven climbers reached the summit. Thirteen people died that summer. Two 8-page inserts, one in color. Maps.

K2, the Savage Mountain

Author : American Karakoram Expedition,Charles S. Houston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : American Karakoram Expedition
ISBN : UOM:39015040111851

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K2, the Savage Mountain by American Karakoram Expedition,Charles S. Houston Pdf

When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world's second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all--for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. Houston, made his second attempt at K2 in 1953. A member of the team, Art Gilkey, became ill (probably with thrombophlebitis) as they approached the summit. The team reversed direction and tried to carry Gilkey down. However, he was lost in a disastrous cascade of events precipitated by a fall where upon multiple ropes became entangled, resulting in most of the team sliding out of control roped together down the mountain. When the last roped man, Pete Schoening, was about to be plucked off by the accelerating climbers, he was remarkably able to arrest the fall of all six climbers using an ice axe belay. "The Belay" was one of the most famous events in mountaineering history.--Wikipedia.

The Challenge of K2

Author : Richard Sale
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844687022

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K2 is a legend - one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the world and one of the most treacherous. Extreme, unpredictable weather and the acutely difficult climbing conditions test the technique, endurance and psychological strength of the most experienced mountaineers to the limit and often beyond. Many of the men and women who have sought to reach the summit have failed, often with tragic consequences - over 70 of them have died or disappeared. Yet this, the second highest mountain on Earth, continues to exercise for the worlds top mountaineers a special, and all too often lethal attraction. Richard Sales fascinating new book traces the climbing history of K2 over the last 150 years, he shows in graphic detail how it acquired this awesome reputation: it was during the first serious attempts on the summit in the 1930s and 1950s that K2 became known as the Savage Mountain.

K2

Author : Charles S. Houston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1885283016

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K2: The Story Of The Savage Mountain

Author : Jim Curran
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444778359

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K2: The Story Of The Savage Mountain by Jim Curran Pdf

K2 is the world's second highest mountain, but its savage reputation is second to none. The loss of Alison Hargreaves and six companions in 1995 was a grim echo of the multiple deaths in 1986 and of earlier disasters which have become part of climbing legend. K2 has always attracted the greatest names in mountaineering. Wiessner, Houston, Bonatti, Diemberger and Bonington are among those whose lives have been permanently scarred by their experiences on it. At the same time some inspiring new routes have been achieved on the world's most difficult 8000-metre peak. Jim Curran, himself a survivor of 1986, has traced the history of the mountain from the nineteenth-century pioneer explorers down to the present, and sees a repeating pattern of naked ambition, rivalry, misjudgement and recrimination. He has also found selfless heroism and impressive route-making on the mountain that top climbers will always covet as the ultimate prize.

K2

Author : Heidi Howkins
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111784034

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K2 by Heidi Howkins Pdf

The tales of a single mother who has climbed K2, just a little lower than Everest, but "steeper, tougher, and deadlier."--Jacket.

K2

Author : Jim Curran
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015040562459

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K2 by Jim Curran Pdf

K2 is the world's second highest mountain, but its savage reputation is second to none. The loss of Alison Hargreaves and six companions in 1995 was a grim echo of the multiple deaths in 1986 and of earlier disasters which have become part of climbing legend. K2 has always attracted the greatest names in mountaineering. Wiessner, Houston, Bonatti, Diemberger and Bonington are among those whose lives have been permanently scarred by their experiences on it. At the same time some inspiring new routes have been achieved on the world's most difficult 8000-metre peak. Book jacket.