Description
| Product ID: | 9780060587161 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Savage Summit |
| Subtitle: | The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 |
| Authors: | Author: Jennifer Jordan |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Climbing and mountaineering, Climbing & mountaineering, China |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents a narrative nonfiction, in which the author chronicles individual stories of the five courageous women who have climbed K2, the most fearsome mountain in the world. Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs. In Savage Summit, Jennifer Jordan shares the tragic, compelling, inspiring, and extraordinary true stories of a handful of courageous women -- mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, poets and engineers -- who defeated this formidable mountain yet ultimately perished in pursuit of their dreams. |
| Imprint Name: | It Books |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-03-02 |
