Ed Viesturs
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2, thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a thirty-six-hour period on K2 - the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst...