No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
Autor Graham Bowleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2011
K2, August 1st, 2008.
Thirty climbers are attempting the summit of the most savage mountain on Earth. They make it. But before they start their descent an ice shelf collapses, sweeping away their ropes. It is dark. Their lines are gone. They are low on oxygen. And it is getting very, very cold.
How many will make it down alive?
'A gripping hour-by-hour dissection of events in the Western Himalayas over three deadly days. A fitting shelfmate to the modern classicInto Thin Air. A cracking read'Sunday Times
'Stories of heroism, sadness and extraordinary endurance against all the odds [are] woven into a thrilling drama'Daily Mail
'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival . . . as complete a version of the calamitous story as will probably ever emerge'Financial Times
'The best mountain-disaster memoir sinceInto Thin Air'Mail on Sunday
Graham Bowley was born in England in 1968. He is a reporter for the New York Times. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their two daughters and son.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141044064
ISBN-10: 0141044063
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 16pp colour inset
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141044063
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 16pp colour inset
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Graham
Bowley
was
born
in
England
in
1968.
He
is
a
reporter
for
theNew
York
Times.
He
lives
in
Manhattan
with
his
wife
and
their
two
daughters
and
son.
Recenzii
Riveting
and
powerful;
an
extraordinary
story
of
an
extraordinary
tragedy.
ReadingNo
Way
Downis
the
closest
you
can
come
to
being
on
the
summit
of
K2
on
that
fateful
day
A gripping hour-by-hour dissection of events in the Western Himalaya over three deadly days... a fitting shelfmate to the modern classicInto Thin Air
Stories of heroism, sadness and extraordinary endurance against all the odds are woven into a thrilling drama
Unputdownable... a portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival'
Artfully and assiduously pieces together an account of a fractious day in brutal real time. Fatality by fatality... devastating
A tour de force of a book...a triumph of storytelling
Probably the best mountain-disaster memoir sinceInto Thin Air
One of the best books I've ever read. But take it to the beach at your peril - it's impossible to put down. Sunburn is guaranteed
A gripping hour-by-hour dissection of events in the Western Himalaya over three deadly days... a fitting shelfmate to the modern classicInto Thin Air
Stories of heroism, sadness and extraordinary endurance against all the odds are woven into a thrilling drama
Unputdownable... a portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival'
Artfully and assiduously pieces together an account of a fractious day in brutal real time. Fatality by fatality... devastating
A tour de force of a book...a triumph of storytelling
Probably the best mountain-disaster memoir sinceInto Thin Air
One of the best books I've ever read. But take it to the beach at your peril - it's impossible to put down. Sunburn is guaranteed
Textul de pe ultima copertă
On August 1, 2008, no fewer than eight international teams of mountain climbers—some experienced, others less prepared—ascended K2, the world's second-highest mountain, with the last group reaching the summit at 8 p.m. Then disaster struck. A huge ice chunk came loose above a deadly three-hundred-foot avalanche-prone gully, destroying the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers—many without oxygen and some with no headlamps—faced the nearly impossible task of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not.
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history.
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history.