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4) The summit
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of eleven mountaineers who mysteriously perished on K2 in 2008.
The story of the deadliest day on the world's most dangerous mountain, when 11 climbers mysteriously perished on K2.
5) Everest
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, Everest documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help the surviving members of the ill-fated group. The international team of climbers scale the world's tallest peak in this daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.
6) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She's come to Mount Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She's given up everything for this story--her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she's made with her climbing failures in the past--but it's a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
302 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2-the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Denali's Howl is the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time. In 1967, twelve young men attempted to climb Alaska's Mount McKinley--known to the locals as Denali--one of the most popular and deadly mountaineering destinations in the world. Only five survived. At an elevation of nearly 20,000 feet, these young men endured an "arctic super blizzard," with howling winds of up to 300 miles an hour and wind chill...
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