No Way Down : Life and Death on K2

from willclose-ash

An amazing book! A great account of a truly tragic story, I couldn't put it down, finished it in two days!

from jan.fleming

"It's the summit of K2, 1 August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and sweeps away their ropes. They don't know it yet, ...

from BlackSheepDances

"Above the Bottleneck was the serac-the blunt overhanging end of a hanging glacier-a shimmering, tottering wave frozen as it crashed over the moutainside, a suspended ice mountain six hundred feet tall...and about half a mile long. It was smooth in places but large parts of it were pitted with cr...

from jan.fleming

"It's the summit of K2, 1 August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and sweeps away their ropes. They don't know it yet, ...

from sushicat

The book recounts events on K2 in 2008, the first day in that season where the summit could be reached. As a lot of climbers had been waiting for this opportunity, there were a number of expeditions pushing for the top that day. This lead to delays in climbing and eventually daytime ran out for s...