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| #1333801 in Books | Mountaineers Books | 1988-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.25 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 236 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Worst climbing tragedy on K2.|By Bootsiesgirl2|Well written account of the 1986 achievements and deaths on K2. Twenty-seven climbed the mountain that year. Thirteen died. Eight died above 8,000m. The other five died from a falling rock, avalanches, and falls.
I found a very crucial piece of information that apparently had not been read or heeded by most climbers on K|.com |Before the 1996 Everest disaster made that mountain synonymous with tragedy at 8,000 meters, there was K2. More technical in most routes than Everest, the world's second-highest peak is considered the ultimate achievement by many mountaineers. In 1986 K
K2, "the savage mountain", is the second-highest peak in the world - and the most difficult to climb. In 1986, it was the site of both dazzling triumph and great loss as twenty-seven men and women reached the top but thirteen died trying. To this day it remains the single greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering. Curran was there to record it all in words and photographs: courage and obsession, luminous success and thwarted ambition.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.K2, Triumph and Tragedy | Jim Curran. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
