K2 – The 1939 Tragedy

Mountaineers everywhere had an opinion on this controversial story when it was
first published. Now available in a paperbound version, K2: The 1939 Tragedy
unravels the complex tangle of events and personalities that led to four
deaths on the 1939 American expedition to K2.

With the aid of a recently available trip diary, this book challenges the
conventionally accepted version of the story.

Contemporary evidence sheds new light on the story of the 1939 American K2
expedition, which was marred by mystery and death.