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Savage summit: the true stories of the five women who climbed K2, the world's most feared mountain

By Jennifer , Jordan

Book information

Publisher
Dey Street Books;HarperCollins
Year
2009
ISBN
9780061753527, 0061753521
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1077136 bytes)
Pages
352 pages\0
Time added
2020-12-05 07:46:15
Nonfiction;Sports;Mountaineering;Adventure;Biograp

Description

Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs. In Savage Summit, Jennifer Jordan shares the tragic, compelling, inspiring, and extraordinary true stories of a handful of courageous women -- mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, poets and engineers -- who defeated this formidable mountain yet ultimately perished in pursuit of their dreams.

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