London or New York, 1981, 1st edition. 176 pp, ills (mostly color). Large format hardcover with dust jacket. Fine. Book may have slightly bowed cover.
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History of the peak and description of Messner's 1979 expedition with Michel Dacher. One of the scarcest of Messner's titles. K2, the second highest mountain in the world, is the hardest to surmount of all the eight-thousanders. Twenty-five years after the first ascent by a large Italian expedition.