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THE LAST MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN
By: Jennifer Jordan
The Death of an American Adventurer on K2
W. W. Norton & Company
August 2010
On Sale: August 16, 2010
302 pages
ISBN: 0393077780
EAN: 9780393077780
Hardcover
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The untold story of Dudley Wolfe and Americaโs ill-fated 1939 expedition to the roof of the world. In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the worldโs second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an even more formidable challenge than Mt. Everest. Although close to middle age and inexperienced at high altitude, Wolfe, with the team leader, made it higher than any other members of the expedition, but he couldnโt get back down. Suffering from altitude sickness and severe dehydration, he was abandoned at nearly 25,000 feet; it would be another sixty-three years before Jennifer Jordan discovered his remains. In a story where The Great Gatsby meets Into Thin Air, readers follow Wolfe from the salons of Europe to the most forbidding landscape on earth. Wolfe went to K2 to find his own strength, only to encounter his teammatesโ lethal weaknesses in a place called the Death Zone. 16 pages of photographs
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