No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 - Softcover

Bowley, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061834793 ISBN 13: 9780061834790

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

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Review:

"Unputdownable.... A portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival, as complete a version of the calamitous story as will probably ever emerge. . . . [A] step-by-faltering-step recreation of the thin-air fight to survive, bristling with cinematic immediacy."--Justin Marozzi, Financial Times

"Brisk and engrossing. . . . Mr. Bowley reveals a deep sympathy for his characters and their quest. . . . Entertaining."--Michael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal

"An astonishingly dramatic and sad tale of disaster on K2. Bowley expertly puts together the complex story of what happened as eleven people died high on the summit slopes of K2 in August 2008."--Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void

"Riveting and powerful; an extraordinary story of an extraordinary tragedy. Reading No Way Down is the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day."--Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Explorer and Author

"Graham Bowley's No Way Down does a great job of putting you on the mountain. It is a refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain."--Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the Storm

"A page-turning, utterly fresh take on the mountaineering experience, an Into Thin Air for a new century."--Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers

"Through dogged reporting and vivid storytelling, Graham Bowley reconstructs K2's 2008 climbing season, one of the most disastrous in history. I read this book in a single, sweaty-palmed sitting, and not because I intended to. I simply couldn't put it down."--Nick Heil, author of Dark Summit

"Both a gripping read and a clear-eyed investigation, No Way Down provides a compelling education in the game of climbing on the world's highest mountains to readers who have never tied into a rope, and is an essential addition to any mountaineer's bookshelf."--Michael Kodas, author of High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed

"Bowley takes readers right onto the mountain.... As avalanches shear away ropes, darkness falls and rescue attempts succeed and fail, the book becomes impossible to put down..... The vivid story will captivate readers. No Way Down doesn't just tell a harrowing adventure story-it will also make you think."--BookPage

"[A] fascinating tour de force.... Bowley wove his tale together after hundreds of interviews with dozens of people, and the result is a triumph of storytelling."--Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press

From the Back Cover:

On August 1, 2008, no fewer than eight international teams of mountain climbers--some experienced, others less prepared--ascended K2, the world's second-highest mountain, with the last group reaching the summit at 8 p.m. Then disaster struck. A huge ice chunk came loose above a deadly three-hundred-foot avalanche-prone gully, destroying the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers--many without oxygen and some with no headlamps--faced the nearly impossible task of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not.

In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061834793
• ISBN 13: 9780061834790
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304