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| #1303733 in Books | Mountaineers Books | 1993-09-30 | 1993-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.95 x.62 x5.92l,.87 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| The anatomy of a famous disaster|By Susan R. Matthews|While "disaster" may be more usually applied to events which take the lives of more than the few people who climb mountains in any given expedition, the word seems well-applied to Weissner's 1939 expedition to K2. In light of more recent understanding about altitude sickness and the pernicious effects of "thin air" on r|.com |In 1939 an American expedition attempted to make a first ascent of the world's second-highest peak, K2, in the Himalayas. Two members of the party came within 800 feet of the summit before turning back, and in the confusion and inclement weather that fo
* Explains the complex tangle of events and personalities that led to the death of four men on the world's second-highest summit
* Reveals a trip diary found decades after the expedition uncover the disaster's contributing factors
Mountaineers everywhere had an opinion on this controversial story when it was first published. K2: The 1939 Tragedy unravels the complex tangle of events and personalities that led to four deaths on...
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