K2 is one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the
world and one of the most treacherous - K2 is a legend. Extreme,
unpredictable weather and the acutely difficult climbing conditions
test the technique, endurance and psychological strength of the
most experienced mountaineers to the limit - and often beyond. Many
of the men and women who have sought to reach the summit have
failed, often with tragic consequences - over 70 of them have died
or disappeared. Yet this, the second highest mountain on Earth,
continues to exercise for the world's top mountaineers a special -
all too often lethal - attraction, and this is the subject of
Richard Sale's fascinating new book. As he traces the climbing
history of K2 over the last 150 years, he shows in graphic detail
how it acquired this awesome reputation: it was during the first
serious attempts on the summit in the 1930s and 1950s that K2
became known as the Savage Mountain.
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