the last step

documentation of the american ascent of K2 in 1979: 32 pages with coloured
photographs of the exped! In September 1978, Rick Ridgeway, Jim Wickwire, Lou
Reichardt and John Roskelley stood atop K2, the first Americans ever to
achieve this victory. Under the leadership of Jim Whittaker, they and their
teammates had spent 67 days on the mountain, nearly all of them above 18,000
feet, where the stresses of high-altitude living, of monotonous food, of
confinement in tiny tents for day after day of frustrating storms had worn
them down to the core.