THE GHOSTS OF K2: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE FIRST ASCENT Mick Conefrey 2015 1st ed Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available (Conefrey, Mick)

	Item #: BK4595-5763 THE GHOSTS OF K2: THE EPIC SAGA OF THE FIRST ASCENT Mick Conefrey 2015 1st ed Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available By Conefrey, Mick Price: $27.99 Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
Detailed Product Description
London and New York, 2015, 1st edition. New hardcover with dust jacket. At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it is a far tougher proposition. Unlike Everest, there is no 'Yak route' for commercial clients. It is hard climbing all the way from its base to its summit. K2 will kill you on the way up and kill you on the way down. Mick Conefrey tells the story of three extraordinary expeditions filled with riveting drama and unimaginable tragedy: Fritz Wiessener's controversial attempt of 1939, the disastrous American expedition of 1953, and the huge Italian expedition of 1954 on which K2 was first climbed. He captures the bold and eccentric characters -- their friendships and rivalries, their guilt and betrayals. At the center of the narrative is Charlie Houston, who led the failed 1953 exhibition, who was forced to give up his ambition of ever reaching the summit, and who was haunted for the rest of his life by the ghosts of the world's most beautiful and lethal mountain.
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available Items From This Author Items From This Category THE LAST GREAT MOUNTAIN: THE CLIMBING HISTORY OF KANGCHENJUNGA Mick Conefrey 2020 1st UK ed DJ New Multiple copies available *By: Conefrey, Mick* Price $39.95 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $10.05 (20%) *- Item # BK4226-5395* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE FELLOWSHIP OF GHOSTS A JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF NORWAY Paul Watkins Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available *By: Watkins, Paul* Price $1.99 ~ Regular $24.00, You Save $22.01 (92%) *- Item # BK2379-5835* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HIGH LONESOME: EPIC SOLO CLIMBING STORIES John Long 1999 1st ed New Paperback Multiple Copies Available *By: Long, John and Hai-Van K. Sponholz* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $14.95, You Save $4.96 (33%) *- Item # BK893-742117* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALBERT SMITH AND THE ASCENT OF MONT BLANC: THE COCKNEY WHO SOLD THE ALPS Alan McNee 2015 1st ed New Multiple copies available *By: McNee, Alan* Price $23.99 *- Item # BK4236-5763* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MICK BOWIE: THE HERMITAGE YEARS 1969 reprint Hardcover No DJ Near Fine SIGNED by Nick and Nan Bowie *By: Bowie, Nan* Price $34.99 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $40.01 (53%) *- Item # OP931A-871* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart EXTREME EIGER: THE RACE TO CLIMB THE DIRECT ROUTE UP THE NORTH FACE OF THE EIGER 2015 1st UK ed New Hardcover DJ SIGNED by Peter and Leni Gillman 3 Copies Available *By: Gillman, Peter and Leni* Price $39.99 ~ Regular $49.95, You Save $9.96 (20%) *- Item # BK4601B-5763* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALPINE JOURNAL 2003 (UK) Volume 108, No. 352 *By: Alpine Club, edited by Ed Douglas* Price $39.95 *- Item # AJ2003* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart APPALACHIA: FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 1926 95 Very Good - Fine Multiple Copies Available *By: Appalachian Mountain Club* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $24.95, You Save $4.96 (20%) *- Item # JR566-3785* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart AFTERSHOCK: ONE MAN'S QUEST AND THE QUAKE ON EVERESTt Jules Mountain 2017 Paperback Fine-New Multiple Copies Available *By: Mountain, Jules* Price $24.95 *- Item # BK7032-5396* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALPINE JOURNAL 100s OF ISSUES LISTED HERE! PAPERBACK, WRAPPERS or HARDCOVER ISSUES 1863-1986 *By: Alpine Club* Price $10.00 *- Item # JR207B* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE LAST GREAT MOUNTAIN: THE CLIMBING HISTORY OF KANGCHENJUNGA Mick Conefrey 2020 1st UK ed DJ New Multiple copies available *By: Conefrey, Mick* Price $39.95 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $10.05 (20%) *- Item # BK4226-5395* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE MAVERICK MOUNTAINEER: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF GEORGE INGLE FINCH Robert Wainwright 2016 1st UK ed Hardcover New 3 copies available *By: Wainwright, Robert* Price $39.99 *- Item # BK3265-5763* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HIMALAYAN QUEST: ED VIESTURS ON THE 8000 METER GIANTS Ed Viesturs 2003 Paperback New SIGNED by Ed Viesturs and David Breashears *By: Viesturs, Ed and Peter Potterfield* Price $24.99 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $5.01 (17%) *- Item # BK1878A-583* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE ASCENT OF NANDA DEVI H. W. Tilman 1937 1st US ed Hardcover No DJ Very Good 2 Copies Available [Not Signed] *By: Tilman, H. W.* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $55.01 (73%) *- Item # OP1735A-7532* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart VIER IM HIMALAYA: ERLEBNISBERICHT DER DEUTSCHEN NEPAL EXPEDITION 1955 [ANNAPURNA IV FIRST ASCENT: FOUR IN HIMALAYA: EXPERIENCE REPORT OF THE GERMAN NEPAL EXPEDITION 1955] Heinz Steinmetz 1957 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine *By: Steinmetz, Heinz* Price $39.99 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $10.01 (20%) *- Item # OP3721-753* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart QUEST FOR ADVENTURE 1981 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Fine 3 Copies Available SIGNED by Chris Bonington *By: Bonington, Chris* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $15.01 (43%) *- Item # OP102A-8013p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart REINHOLD MESSNER FREE SPIRIT: A CLIMBER'S LIFE 1991 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine SIGNED by Reinhold Messner *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $79.95 ~ Regular $150.00, You Save $70.05 (47%) *- Item # BK142-865* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MOUNTAINEERING AND ITS LITERATURE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY W.R. Neate 1978 1st ed Hardcover DJ Like New SIGNED by Jill Neate *By: Neate, W.R.* Price $150.00 *- Item # OP602C-576* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MASTER OF THIN AIR: LIFE AND DEATH ON THE WORLD'S HIGHEST PEAKS Andrew Lock 2015 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine *By: Lock, Andrew* Price $35.00 *- Item # BK25735-931* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart FAR, FAR THE DISTANT PEAK: THE LIFE OF WILFRID NOYCE, MOUNTAINEER, SCHOLAR, POET Stewart Hawkins 2014 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Hawkins, Stewart* Price $39.95 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $35.05 (47%) *- Item # BK4301-6572* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart NEPAL HIMALAYA H. W. Tilman 1952 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine *By: Tilman, H. W.* Price $135.00 ~ Regular $275.00, You Save $140.00 (51%) *- Item # OP386C-753* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart