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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
High Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 Author:Clint Willis (Editor) In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing - from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer - on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary to ... more »the summit of Everest in 1953; the story of the first successful American assault on K2 in 1978; a British photographer's view of the calamitous 1996 storm on Everest; and many more. A cornucopia of mountaineering thrills for adventurous readers.
Contents:
from The other side of Everest / Matt Dickinson --
from K2: dreams and reality / Jim Haberl --
from Everest the hard way / Chris Bonington --
from On the heights / Walter Bonatti --
from Everest: the unclimbed ridge / Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke --
from Everest Canada: the ultimate challenge / Alan Burgess and Jim Palmer --
from Fragile edge / Maria Coffey --
from Five miles high / Charles S. Houston and Robert H. Bates --
from In the throne room of the mountain gods / Galen Rowell --
from The last step / Rick Ridgeway --
Bad summer on K2 / Jon Krakauer --
from Snow in the kingdom: my storm years on Everest / Ed Webster --
from Soldiers and sherpas: a taste for adventure / Brummie Stokes --
from Camp six: an account of the 1933 Everest expedition / F.S. Smythe --
from K2: the savage mountain / Charles S. Houston and Robert H. Bates --