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The Endless Knot - K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny (Paperback, New edition)
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The Endless Knot - K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R448
Loot Price R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
You Save R54 (12%)
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A monumental book - I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved. -
Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal. Acclaimed as one of the most
powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written,
The Endless Knot is a harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster. A
rare first-hand account from a survivor at the very epicentre of
the drama, The Endless Knot describes the disaster in frank detail.
Kurt Diemberger's account of the final days of success, accident,
storm and escape during which five climbers died, including his
partner Julie Tullis and the great British mountaineer Al Rouse, is
lacerating in its sense of tragedy, loss and dogged survival. Only
Diemberger and Willi Bauer escaped the mountain. K2 had claimed the
lives of 13 climbers that summer. Kurt Diemberger is one of only
two climbers to have made first ascents of two 8000-metre peaks,
Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri. A superb mountaineer, the K2 trauma left
him physically and emotionally ravaged, but it also marked him out
as an instinctive and tenacious survivor. After a long period of
recovery Diemberger published The Endless Knot and resumed life as
a mountaineer, filmmaker and international lecturer.
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