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At 28,251 foot, K2 might be almost 800 foot shorter than Everest, but from the significantly harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and just how down. Mick Conefrey leads us through the first tale of the renowned pile and the incredible efforts that led up to its first ascent in 1954 - they are stories of riveting dilemma and unimaginable tragedy. Starting with the ill-fated efforts of the drug-addicted occultist Aleister Crowley and the rich Italian Duke of Abruzzi, the booklet then focusses on the three remarkable expeditions of 1939, 1953 and 1954. The thread subscribing to them jointly is the North american Charlie Houston - an excellent but tortured expedition head who imagined being the first man to make it all the best way to the top. Based on exclusive interviews with making it through associates and their families and access to diaries and letters that have been archived surrounding the world, this is a narrative that evokes the real atmosphere of the 'Savage Mountain' and explores the complicated legacy of the first ascent. Wrought with anxiety and filled by tragic heroes and eccentric dreamers, Ghosts of K2 is a masterpiece of mountaineering literature.
