
The Last Man on the Mountain
The Death of an American Adventurer on K2
Jennifer Jordan(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 8. October 2010
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-393-07778-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
16 pages of photographs
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
507 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-07778-0 (9780393077780)
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Jennifer Jordan, an award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter, has twice lived at the base of K2, where in 2002 she found the remains of Dudley Wolfe, the hero of The Last Man on the Mountain, her second book. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.