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The Challenge of K2

Richard Sale
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Author : Richard Sale
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 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.

The Ghosts of K2

Mick Conefrey
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Author : Mick Conefrey
Publisher : Oneworld Publications Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1780745958

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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

Ed Viesturs,David Roberts
K2 Book PDF

Author : Ed Viesturs,David Roberts
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780767932608

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A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top “Gripping . . . reveals a good deal about the rarefied noble-gonzo world of high-altitude mountaineering.”—The New York Times Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, explores the remarkable history of K2 and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time, he probes the mountain's most memorable sagas in order to illustrate lessons about the fundamental questions mountaineering raises—questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one's teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and got caught in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death before Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott's. Focusing on seven of the mountain's most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs's personal collection and from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world's ultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit.

K2

Heidi Howkins
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Author : Heidi Howkins
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.

Savage Summit

Jennifer Jordan
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Author : Jennifer Jordan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061753527

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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.

K2, The Savage Mountain

Norman Handy
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Author : Norman Handy
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.

No Way Down

Graham Bowley
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Author : Graham Bowley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062002907

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New York Times Bestseller “A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain.” — Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the Storm In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, New York Times journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history—the 2008 K2 ascent that claimed the lives of eleven climbers In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height. . . but second to no peak in terms of danger. On August 1, 2008, no fewer than eight international teams of mountain climbers—some experienced, others less prepared—ascended K2, the world's second-highest mountain, with the last group reaching the summit at 8 p.m. Then disaster struck. A huge ice chunk came loose above a deadly three-hundred-foot avalanche-prone gully, destroying the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers—many without oxygen and some with no headlamps—faced the nearly impossible task of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism and survival, No Way Down is an amazing feat of storytelling and adventure writing, and, in the words of explorer and author Sir Ranulph Fiennes, “the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day.”

One Man's Climb

Adrian Hayes
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Author : Adrian Hayes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781526745385

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A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world’s most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meeres above sea level on the China–Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers. Alongside severe altitude, the weather is notoriously volatile and the climb relentlessly steep. A staggering one in four attempts result in death on the mountain. In One Man’s Climb, Adrian Hayes details an intensely personal account of his attempts to climb K2 – first in 2013 and again in 2014. Absorbing and self-reflective, his journey is as much a story of climbing a mountain as it is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to endure.

Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox

Kate Rheaume-Bleue
Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox Book PDF

Author : Kate Rheaume-Bleue
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781118065723

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Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox by Kate Rheaume-Bleue Pdf

Learn the secret to avoiding osteoporosis and heart disease. Rheaume-Bleue shows that vitamin D and calcium supplements actually increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, and teaches you about vitamin K2, a little-known supernutrient that humans once thrived on-- and that has been ignored by scientists.

Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians

Michel Talagrand
Spin Glasses A Challenge for Mathematicians Book PDF

Author : Michel Talagrand
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540003568

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Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians by Michel Talagrand Pdf

In the eighties, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses". These models are simple and rather canonical random structures, that physicists studied by non-rigorous methods. They predicted spectacular behaviors, previously unknown in probability theory. They believe these behaviors occur in many models of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science). This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics, and contains proofs in complete detail of much of what is rigorously known on spin glasses at the time of writing.

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

Jennifer Jordan
The Last Man on the Mountain The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Jordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

K2: Triumph And Tragedy

Jim Curran
K2 Triumph And Tragedy Book PDF

Author : Jim Curran
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444778366

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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.

K2, The Savage Mountain

Charles Houston,Robert Bates
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Author : Charles Houston,Robert Bates
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493050253

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K2, The Savage Mountain by Charles Houston,Robert Bates 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. 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.

Tears in the Wind

Larry Semento
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Author : Larry Semento
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Denali, Mount (Alaska)
ISBN : 1533558132

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When Larry Semento signed on with a commercial expedition to climb Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley) in Alaska, he expected an adventure. He didn't anticipate the story of a lifetime. After battling harsh weather to reach the summit, the team encountered a horrible tragedy on descent. Follow along on this amazing journey and discover what it is like to climb a big mountain, and understand the impact that this epic adventure had on him, his family and friends.

Crazy For Her

Sumi
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Author : Sumi
Publisher : starlight
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Crazy For Her by Sumi Pdf

“You are not going to escape this time around, Kiara, I promise you that. You are going to rot in here!” “Kiara, I almost lost my mind when he was proudly telling me all these things. I wanted to snap his head right there and then, but I couldn’t. I thought of you. I didn’t want to put you in any more danger.” "All of you are a bunch of blockheads. If her wolf is resisting, it means it's protecting her and that in turn means..." And in case you didn’t know, I am very loyal to her and not even the fact that you are my mate will make me leave her. So Kiara Logan, I , Alpha Noah Colton reject you as my mate and future Luna. You are free to go out there and find Love and protection in another man’s arms for you will never find it in mine” Then he turns around and walks away. Kiara had been locked up for the first eighteen years of her life by her father, on her eighteenth birthday, she was given freedom to live like any other werewolf. She was excited to take this new face of her life little did she know that a lot of adversaries awaited her. Read to find out how Kiara overcame the challenges that life tabled threw at her, especially the fact that she was rejected by her very own mate, Alpha Noah.