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K2 (Hardcover)

By: David Roberts (Author) and Ed Viesturs (Author)

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[I]n K2..., Ed Viesturs offers...a good deal about the rarefied noble-gonzo world of high-altitude mountaineering....Death and amputations underscore most of the lessons Viesturs gleans from...[previous] expeditions....[His] conservative manifesto boils down to this: listen to your gut and take care of your comrades; getting to the summit is optional, but getting down is mandatory."

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A first American mountaineer to have ascended all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks explores the history of K2 as reflected by six dramatic climbing campaigns, describing the tragedies that have marked many attempts as well as his own near-fatal 1992 ascent.

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling author of "No Shortcuts to the Top
"At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2-the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. Yet summiting K2 remains a cherished goal for climbers from all over the globe. Before he faced the challenge of K2 himself, Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, thought of it as "the holy grail of mountaineering."
In "K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, " Viesturs explores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time he probes K2's most memorable sagas in an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental questions raised by mountaineering-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 were nearly killed in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death. Fortunately, 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.

A first American mountaineer to have ascended all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks explores the history of K2 as reflected by six dramatic climbing campaigns, describing the tragedies that have marked many attempts as well as his own near-fatal 1992 ascent.

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Mountain climbing has always been an activity associated with danger, but one peak towers over all the others in terms of threat and peril. K2 may only be the second-highest mountain on the planet, but it has claimed four times as many lives as Everest and has never been conquered in winter, when conditions are at their fiercest. Since it was first climbed in 1954, for every four people who have successfully made the summit of K2, one has died. Ed Viesturs, the first American to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks, is one of the lucky ones, and he shares the harrowing details of his near-deadly ascent of K2, along with six other tales of triumph and tragedy on the world's most dangerous mountain, including the horrific 2008 season which saw 11 climbers die in a span of only three days.

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