No Way Down : Life and Death on K2

English

ISBN: 0061834793

EAN: 9780061834790

Category: Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering/Nature / Mountains/Travel / Asia / Southwest/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 05/25/2011

Synopsis: On August 1, 2008, no fewer than eight international teams of mountain climbers some experienced, others less prepared ascended K2, the worlds second-highest mountain, with the last group reaching the summit at 8 p.m. Then disaster struck. A huge ice chunk came loose above a deadly three-hundred-foot avalanche-prone gully, destroying the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers many without oxygen and some with no headlamps faced the nearly impossible task of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not.

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No Way Down : Life and Death on K2

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.77 inches

Width: 5.38 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 8.01 oz

Pages: 288