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K2 Savage Mountain Savage Summer
In 1986, K2 'The Savage Mountain' claimed the lives of 13 climbers. Tragically, one of those killed was Alan Rouse, the leader of the British Expedition, of which John Barry was a member. This is the story of that tragic summer.
188 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1987
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June 25, 2014
i admire john barry as an individual and as mountaineer after reading his book but then the book overall doesn't leave a mark. A mark as in not of a highlighted section in the book or of some section which one later narrates to someone else, but of the character displayed by any of these man on the mountain.
what lacks is a direction - are we talking of expedition planning, sponsporing or climbing itself in the book? mountaineering is absurd, there is no point in it. The same could be said for the major part of this book.
if this was a modernist take on k2, which i doubt, things had to be seen in a different light.
what lacks is a direction - are we talking of expedition planning, sponsporing or climbing itself in the book? mountaineering is absurd, there is no point in it. The same could be said for the major part of this book.
if this was a modernist take on k2, which i doubt, things had to be seen in a different light.
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