
The Last Step: the American Ascent of K2
The American Ascent of K2
Rick Ridgeway(Author)
Mountaineers Books (Publisher)
Published on 14. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-59485-861-1 (ISBN)
Description
In September 1978, Rick Ridgeway, Jim Wickwire, Lou Reichardt and John Roskelley stood on the summit of K2, the first Americans ever to achieve this victory. Under the leadership of Jim Whittaker, they and their teammates had spent 67 days on the mountain, nearly all of them above 18,000 feet, where the stresses of high-altitude living, of monotonous food, of confinement in tiny tents for day after day of frustrating storms had worn them down to the core. The Last Step is Rick Ridgeway's inside story of this extraordinary expedition. It's about the people who, battered by the mountain and their isolation, overcame their individual fears, desire, and disappointments to work together to get somebody - anybody - to the top of K2. It's about the glorious success the team achieved, and about the perilous bivouac Jim Wickwire spent just below the summit without food, oxygen or shelter in temperatures of minus 40F. A mountaineering classic reintroduced with a 32-page colour insert, as well as a new foreword by mountaineer and Patagonian founder Yvon Chouinard,
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Edition
Legends & Lore edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece, colour plates
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
638 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59485-861-1 (9781594858611)
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Persons
Rick Ridgeway is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, author, photographer, and environmentalist based in Ojai, California. He was included in National Geographic Adventure's "Hall of Fame" in 2008-2009. His writings and photographs have appeared in many publications.