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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 America’s 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 world’s 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 couldn’t 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 teammates’ lethal
weaknesses in a place called the Death Zone. 16 pages of
photographs
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