No Way Down by Graham Bowley
The summit of K2, 1 August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and sweeps away their ropes. They don't know it yet, but they will be forced to descend into the blackness with no lines. Of the thirty who set out, eleven will never make it back. Following the stories of climbers from around the world, No Way Down weaves a tale of human courage, folly, survival and devastating loss. The stories are heart-wrenching: the young married couple whose rope was torn apart by an avalanche, sending the husband to his death; the 61-year-old Frenchman who called his family from near the summit to say he wouldn't make it home. So what drove them to try to conquer this elusive peak? And what went wrong that fateful day?
Riveting and powerful; an extraordinary story of an extraordinary tragedyReading No Way Down is the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day -- Sir Ranulph Fiennes
A page-turning, utterly fresh take on the mountaineering experience, an Into Thin Air for a new century of adventurers, about a mountain even more treacherous than Everest -- Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers
Unputdownable... a portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival' * Financial Times *
Artfully and assiduously pieces together an account of a fractious day in brutal real time. Fatality by fatality... devastating * New York Times *
A tour de force of a book...a triumph of storytelling * Associated Press *
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
Brisk and engrossing... Bowley reveals a deep sympathy for his characters and their quest * Wall Street Journal *
Thrilling and wrenching * Kirkus Reviews *
A page-turning, utterly fresh take on the mountaineering experience, an Into Thin Air for a new century of adventurers, about a mountain even more treacherous than Everest -- Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers
Unputdownable... a portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival' * Financial Times *
Artfully and assiduously pieces together an account of a fractious day in brutal real time. Fatality by fatality... devastating * New York Times *
A tour de force of a book...a triumph of storytelling * Associated Press *
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
Brisk and engrossing... Bowley reveals a deep sympathy for his characters and their quest * Wall Street Journal *
Thrilling and wrenching * Kirkus Reviews *
Graham Bowley was born in England in 1968. He is a reporter for the New York Times. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their two daughters and son.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670918423 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670918423 |
| Title | No Way Down |
| Author | Graham Bowley |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-07-29 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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