Vera Hannaford read and liked Erica's review of K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain:

"Overall an interesting overview of the history of K2 and the plethora of teams that have tried to summit. It would have made a bigger impression and seemed more groundbreaking if I hadn't read In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods right after.
...more Overall an interesting overview of the history of K2 and the plethora of teams that have tried to summit. It would have made a bigger impression and seemed more groundbreaking if I hadn't read In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods right after.

My largest problem with the book was that Viesturs made a huge deal about how Western society ignores the role that the Sherpas play in mountain climbing (which is true and I admire him for making it an issue) and points out how they are never named in press releases. Yet, he never names Asian climbers by name (except for Junko Tabei, but that was due to her being the first woman up Everest, rather than her Asian heritage). They are regulated to being "the Korean team", "the Chinese team" or "the Japanese team".

It just seemed to be a strange discrepancy in an otherwise informative book. (less) "