The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2 - Couverture souple

Ridgeway, Rick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0898866324 ISBN 13 : 9780898866322

Editeur : Mountaineers Books, 1999

Synopsis

In September 1978, after 67 days on the mountain--nearly all of them above 18,000 feet--Ridgeway and three others stood atop K2, the first Americans ever to accomplish this feat. The Last Step tells the story of their extraordinary expedition. Illustrations. of color photos.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In September 1978, Rick Ridgeway, Jim Wickwire, Lou Reichardt and John Roskelley stood on the summit of K2, the first Americans ever to achieve this victory. Under the leadership of Jim Whittaker, they and their teammates had spent 67 days on the mountain, nearly all of them above 18,000 feet, where the stresses of high-altitude living, of monotonous food, of confinement in tiny tents for day after day of frustrating storms had worn them down to the core. The Last Step is Rick Ridgeway's inside story of this extraordinary expedition. It's about the people who, battered by the mountain and their isolation, overcame their individual fears, desire, and disappointments to work together to get somebody anybody - to the top of K2. It's about the glorious success the team achieved, and about the perilous bivouac Jim Wickwire spent just below the summit without food, oxygen or shelter in temperatures of minus 40F. A mountaineering classic reintroduced with a 32-page colour insert, as well as a new foreword by mountaineer and Patagonian founder Yvon Chouinard,

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mountaineers Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0898866324
• ISBN 13: 9780898866322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible