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K2, Triumph and Tragedy (Ulverscroft Large Print Edition)
K2 Triumph and Tragedy - Ulverscroft Large Print Edition Author:Jim Curran K2, "the savage mountain", is the second-highest peak in the world - and the most difficult to cllimb. In 1986, it was the site of both dazzling triumph and great loss as twenty-seven men and women reached the top but thirteen died trying. Tto this day it ramains the single greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering. Curran was there to... more » record it all in words and photographs: courage and obsession, luminous success and thwarted ambition.« less