K2 : one woman's quest for the summit / by Heidi Howkins
by Howkins, Heidi
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0792279964
- ISBN 13
- 9780792279969
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Washington, D. C. : National Geographic, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 270 pages; Description: vii, 270 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Howkins, Heidi --Women mountaineers --United States --Mountaineers --Biography --Mountaineering --Himalaya Mountains. Summary: Among the mountaineering elite, K2 is the ultimate challenge. Everest is higher -- by just 785 feet -- but K2 is steeper, tougher, and deadlier: Everest has been summitted more than 1, 300 times, while only 183 men and 5 women have reached K2's fearsome peak since it was first conquered in 1954, and of those, at least 21 never made it back down. On her first effort in 1998, Howkins became one of the handful of women to attempt the peak. On her second attempt in 2000, she was determined to once again climb this daunting peak alpine-style -- without the aid of porters or supplemental oxygen -- a feat accomplished by very few mountaineers. She knew the risks as well as anyone...but even her long experience could not prepare her for what happened high on K2's deadly slopes. Highlighted by evocative photographs, K2 is a compelling chronicle of high-mountain adventure and personal achievement. It's also an unusually articulate meditation upon risk, reward, and responsibility -- made all the more poignant and immediate by the fact that only a few years ago, Alison Hargreaves's death on K2's flanks provoked a storm of controversy about the morality of trying to combine motherhood and a world-class mountaineering career. ""I have to be ready for whatever challenge I may face, "" writes Howkins, a single mother, as she explores the ethics of her passion. ""My daughter gives me a desperate kind of strength"".
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155649
- Title
- K2 : one woman's quest for the summit / by Heidi Howkins
- Author
- Howkins, Heidi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0792279964
- ISBN 13
- 9780792279969
- Publisher
- Washington, D. C. : National Geographic
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C
- Date Published
- 2001
- LCCN
- 2001030265
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