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K2, Triumph and Tragedy Paperback - 1989

by 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 record it all in words and photographs: courage and obsession, luminous success and thwarted ambition.


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K2, "the savage mountain", is the second-highest peak in the world - and the most difficult to climb. 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. To this day it remains the single greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering. Curran was there to record it all in words and photographs: courage and obsession, luminous success and thwarted ambition.

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K2, the savage mountain, is the second-highest peak in the world - and the most difficult to climb. 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. To this day it remains the single greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering. Curran was there to record it all in words and photographs: courage and obsession, luminous success and thwarted ambition.

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  • Title K2, Triumph and Tragedy
  • Author Jim Curran
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
  • Date 1989-02-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780395485903 / 0395485908
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mountaineering - Pakistan - K2 (Mountain), K2 (Pakistan: Mountain) - Description and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88026631
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.522

Media reviews

"A monument not only to human will and endurance but to the inscrutable vastness of the great white mountain itself." —The New York Times

"A gripping story that belongs with the classics of mountaineering." —Publishers Weekly

"Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated." —Library Journal

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