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K2 THE SAVAGE MOUNTAIN: THE CLASSIC TRUE
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Product Description The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world. Review "Houston and Bates were the first Americans to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain peak. Such an endeavor is remarkably dangerous even now, but reading of the use of equipment as simple as woolen mittens, canvas and wood packs, etc., illustrates the bravery--or perhaps foolhardiness--of such an undertaking then. Five Miles High covers their first climb in 1938 (this account was published a year later), while 1954's K2 chronicles the 1953 climb, which proved far more difficult." -- Library Journal "Here is a great story, simply and grippingly told, which the glory of Everest should not be allowed to obscure." --New York Times From the Back Cover When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world’s second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of allfor every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain is the remarkable first-hand account of the 1953 American expedition, led by Dr. Charles S. Houston, when a combination of storms and illness stopped the team short of the 28,251-foot summit. On the descent, tragedy struck. How they made it back to safety is renowned in the annals of climbing. About the Author Charles S. Houston, M.D. (19132009) and Robert H. Bates (19112007) organized the American expeditions to K2 in 1938 and 1953. Their other book, Five Miles High (The Lyons Press), told the account of the earlier expedition. Dr. Houston practiced internal medicine and was later a professor of medicine at the University of Vermont. Bates, a past president of the American Alpine Club, received his doctorate in English and taught at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He died on September 27, 2009.
