DEADLY PEAKS: MOUNTAINEERING'S GREATEST TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES Hartman & Hauptman 2016 1st ed New Paperback Multiple copies available (Hartman, Frederic and Robert Hauptman)

	Item #: BK4655-1175 DEADLY PEAKS: MOUNTAINEERING'S GREATEST TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES Hartman & Hauptman 2016 1st ed New Paperback Multiple copies available By Hartman, Frederic and Robert Hauptman Price: $12.95 List Price: $18.95 You Save $6.00 (32%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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Conn, 2016, 1st edition. 286 pp. 9'' tall Paperback, New. Recounts some of the most extraordinary controversies, hoaxes, triumphs, and disasters to have ever taken place at high altitude. Many have suffered or died, or lied and cheated in an effort to accomplish their goals. Death is never far away on an 8000 meter peak. Includes the Matterhorn's deadly first ascent. Denali's first winter ascent in 1967. MINUS 148� Denali's deadly Wilcox expedition 1967. K2 heroic and deadly American 1953 expedition. K2 deception and dishonest Italian 1954 first ascent. K2 avalanche and deadly Dutch expedition. Cerro Torre spooky history, 1959, 1970, 2012. Everest Into Thin Air epic, death, heroism, callowness. Siula Grande's 1985 self rescue. Nanga Parbat 1934 tragedy Nanga Parbat 1970 Gunther Messner's death Denali's falsehood ascent, Frederick Cook. Annapurna 1950 first ascent and French falsehood in 1950. Pamirs loses fiften climbers on several expeditions in 1974. Kyrgyzstan kidnapping on a Yosemite type wall Nanga Parbat has eleven murders in basecamp 2013 Kings Canyon Sequoia Park epics 2003. Kings Canyon epics in 2013 Blue John Canyon Utah, 2003, Aaron Ralston self amputates own arm under boulder Everest unnecessary death of David Sharp 2006 K2 & Kangchenjunga lies cause tragedies 2009 - 2010 Tunnel Creek Cascdaes avalanche 2012 Everest in 2014, Sherpas die in icefall.
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