San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1977, 1st edition, 1st or 2nd printing. 326 pp, color photos. Excellent K2 and Karakoram history; includes an assault on K2 led by the Whittakers. Forward by George Schaller. In 1975 a mountaineering team of nine Americans, including writer-photographer Galen Rowell, set forth to scale K2, the worlds second highest peak, in the Karakoram Himalaya.