Savage Summit
Jennifer Jordan
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Description
Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs.
In Savage Summit, Jennifer Jordan shares the tragic, compelling, inspiring, and extraordinary true stories of a handful of courageous women -- mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, poets and engineers -- who defeated this formidable mountain yet ultimately perished in pursuit of their dreams.
Publishers Weekly Review
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Customer Reviews
Emotional
A book would have to be written to review this book. Suffice it to say that we who don't climb will never understand men and women who leave family's and friends to climb the highest points on earth. The risk are beyond weighing the rewards are not readily apparent (they are not rich). Technical skill and experience is not always enough to guarantee survival as some of them keel over from edema and other physical ailments. One female climber accused of using feminine wiles to get men to do the heavy lifting obviously had skills, I don't care if they placed a red carpet on K2 you are not going to get to the top without some skills.

- $7.99
- Category: Social Science
- Published: Oct 13, 2009
- Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
- Seller: HarperCollins
- Print Length: 352 Pages
- Language: English
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