One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2, (Paperback)

from jan.fleming

An insider's account of one of the deadliest and most controversial tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster. When eleven men perished on the slopes of K2 in August 2008, it was one of the deadliest single events in Himalayan climbing and made headlines around the world. Yet non o...

from tjsjohanna

Apart from the details of the ill-fated expedition (which were riveting), Mr. Wilkinson captured my attention with his approach to the story. In each part of the book, he focuses on one group of witnesses and it isn't until the end that all the stories come together in the most probable explanati...

from amerynth

I've read lots of mountaineering books and this one, unfortunately, just failed to capture my interest. "One Mountain, Thousand Summits" isn't so much about the tragic expedition on K2, one of the deadliest mountains in the Himalayas, but about who knew details first about the 11 people who died....