Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
Recounts the true stories of five women who climbed the dangerous K2 mountain, describing how they overcame the harshest climbing and weather conditions of any mountain in the world, addressing controversial issues about gender and mountain climbing, and describing the tragic deaths of three of...
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Recounts the true stories of five women who climbed the dangerous K2 mountain, describing how they overcame the harshest climbing and weather conditions of any mountain in the world, addressing controversial issues about gender and mountain climbing, and describing the tragic deaths of three of the women on their descent. 35,000 first printing.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060587154 (0060587156)
Publish date: January 4th 2005
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Womens,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Mountaineering,
Climbing
Blithely ignoring the criticism, Chantal forged on, joining eighteen expeditions in little more than ten years, but one mountain continued to elude her. When Chantal was asked in June 1995 how she felt about Alison Hargreaves finally achieving on Everest what she had tried and failed to do many tim...
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