\nA thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the
\nworld’s most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors
\nof No Shortcuts to the Top <\/p>\n
At 28,251 feet, the world’s second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of
\nthe Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate
\nachievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as
\nEverest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In
\nAugust 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2\u2013the
\nworst single-event tragedy in the mountain’s history and the second-worst in
\nthe long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. Yet
\nsummiting K2 remains a cherished goal for climbers from all over the globe.
\nBefore he faced the challenge of K2 himself, Ed Viesturs, one of the world’s
\npremier high-altitude mountaineers, thought of it as ‚the holy grail of
\nmountaineering.‘ <\/p>\n
In K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain, Viesturs
\nexplores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have
\nattempted to conquer it. At the same time he probes K2’s most memorable sagas
\nin an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental
\nquestions raised by mountaineering\u2013questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to
\none’s teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the
\nmountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992
\nand were nearly killed in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost
\ncertain death. Fortunately, Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with
\nhis ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott‘ s. <\/p>\n
Focusing on seven of the mountain’s most dramatic campaigns, from his own
\ntroubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-
\nyour-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find
\nunforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs’s personal collection
\nand from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world’s
\nultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling
\ntoward its elusive summit. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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