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K2 Books
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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as k2)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,006 ratings — published 2010
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as k2)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,725 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as k2)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,026 ratings — published 2009
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as k2)
avg rating 3.65 — 585 ratings — published 2010
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as k2)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,431 ratings — published 1954
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as k2)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,260 ratings — published 2005
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as k2)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,194 ratings — published 1987
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as k2)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,128 ratings — published 2015
The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as k2)
avg rating 3.98 — 610 ratings — published 2010
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as k2)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,570 ratings — published 2006
Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as k2)
avg rating 4.00 — 39,613 ratings — published 1997
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as k2)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,940 ratings — published 2006
The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as k2)
avg rating 4.33 — 749 ratings — published 2013
The Keeper of Happy Endings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.45 — 134,484 ratings — published 2021
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.54 — 31,182 ratings — published 1895
Inheritance (K2 Spy Series, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.47 — 36 ratings — published 2010
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,829,415 ratings — published 2013
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,497,254 ratings — published 2012
The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.42 — 12,494 ratings — published 2019
The Forbidden Door (Jane Hawk, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,994 ratings — published 2018
The Crooked Staircase (Jane Hawk, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.12 — 14,881 ratings — published 2018
The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.18 — 21,373 ratings — published 2017
The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,277 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.17 — 597,307 ratings — published 2011
77 Shadow Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.37 — 22,127 ratings — published 2011
Night Chills (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.88 — 26,894 ratings — published 1976
Seize the Night (Moonlight Bay, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,979 ratings — published 1998
Lightning (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,765 ratings — published 1988
Velocity (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.87 — 67,414 ratings — published 2005
Mr. Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.79 — 28,443 ratings — published 1993
The Taking (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.79 — 43,122 ratings — published 2004
Twilight Eyes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,118 ratings — published 1985
Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,687 ratings — published 1940
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.67 — 882 ratings — published 2018
Surviving K2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.85 — 716 ratings — published 2009
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,837,025 ratings — published 2003
High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline Books)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 3.63 — 378 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,539,959 ratings — published 1997
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,118,946 ratings — published 1967
The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.24 — 246 ratings — published 1980
K2: The Price of Conquest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.11 — 37 ratings — published 2006
A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as k2)
avg rating 4.05 — 735 ratings — published 1999
The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as k2)
avg rating 4.07 — 32,668 ratings — published 2014
Keeper of Lost Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as k2)
avg rating 4.48 — 12,216 ratings — published 2026
La conquista del K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as k2)
avg rating 3.52 — 23 ratings — published 1954
“[Everest’s] fatality rate - the percentage of climbers who went above Base Camp and died - had averaged 0.7 the previous decade [1998 - 2008]…In 2008, the fatality rate of those leaving [K2] base camp for a summit bid was 30.5%, higher than the casualty rate at Omaha Beach on D-Day.”
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
― Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
“K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.”
― K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
― K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain












