Read The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2's Deadliest Days By Pat Falvey
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Ebook About On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every four climbers who attempt it. Within 28 hours, K2 had exacted a deadly toll: 11 lives were lost in a series of catastrophic accidents.Attracting a climbing elite and standing at 8,611 metres on the Pakistan-China border, K2 is known as the ‘Mountaineer’s Mountain’ because of its extreme technical challenges, its dangerously unpredictable weather and an infamous and hazardous overhanging wall of ice known as the Serac.Snow-bound at Base Camp for weeks on end and increasingly despairing of their prospects of success, an unexpected weather window gave the climbers the opportunity they were waiting for. In their collective desire to reach the summit, seven expeditions agreed to co-ordinate their efforts and share their equipment. Triumph quickly turned to tragedy, however, when a seemingly flawless plan unravelled with lethal consequences. Over the course of three days, a Nepalese Sherpa called Pemba Gyalje, along with five other Sherpas, was at the centre of a series of attempts to rescue climbers who had become trapped in the Death Zone, unable to escape its clutches and debilitated by oxygen deprivation, chronic fatigue, delirium and a terrifying hopelessness. The tragedy became a controversy as the survivors walked from the catastrophe on the mountain into an international media storm, in which countless different stories emerged, some contradictory and many simply untrue.Based on Pemba Gyalje’s eye-witness account and drawing on a series of interviews with the survivors which were conducted for the award-winning documentary, The Summit (Image Now Films and Pat Falvey Productions, 2012), The Summit: How Triumph Turned to Tragedy on K2’s Deadliest Days is the most comprehensive account of one of modern-day mountaineering’s most controversial disasters.Book The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2's Deadliest Days Review :
The fact that an experienced Sherpa had a strong voice in telling this story lent it honesty and credibility that I find refreshing. I am an armchair climber, who cannot get enough of reading about the high altitude adventures of others. I am an adventurer in other venues such as diving. I have made my own mistakes which have almost cost me my life, when I was attacked by a shark. Therefore I don't have the right or insight to judge the irresponsible actions of others. Having said that, one omission by the team leaders and individuals on this summit bid bothers me so much that I DO feel very judgmental of them.Something I found profoundly disturbing as this tragedy unfolded, is that NONE of the leaders of the doomed teams seemed to feel compelled to set a turnaround time on the world's deadliest peak. Even an armchair mountaineer knows that summiting a peak above 8,000 meters absolutely should occur no later than 2 or 3 pm. The ideal summit goal on Everest or K2 is around 1 pm I think. These teams continued to trudge on up the mountain until the final summiteer stepped foot on the top at SEVEN PM! I felt anger and frustration at the needless loss of life that absolutely would have been prevented, in all but one case, had there been a modicum of intelligent decision making regarding summit time/turnaround time. This author failed to address the obvious and refused to place blame where there absolutely was blame, for team leaders and individuals so consumed with summit fever that they marched on until DARK to reach the summit. Had I not known when I began reading this book that any climbers in this story would die, I would have clearly foreseen tragedy once I read that these teams continued to push upwards at 5, 6, and 7 pm. SURELY they themselves knew descent would be very dangerous after dark. One very haunting image is of the long shadow cast by K2 late in the day, even as the reader knows a long string of climbers continued towards the summit.I have read many mountain climbing books because they fascinate me. In EVERY other book I have read, teams agreed in advance on a time past which they should not continue up, even if they were very close to the summit. Inevitably, tragedy ensues when individuals push past their agreed turnaround times, but in every other story I've read, at least time boundaries were discussed and set. It really bothers me, considering the cost in lives, that at least in the telling of this story, it appears no leader set time boundaries for himself or his team. This honestly just blows my mind. I also feel it is irresponsible for the author not to expound on this aspect of absolute irresponsibility of team leaders AND individuals, and the author's refusal to place blame where clearly some blame belongs.Another thing I do not understand: WHY, when a member of a team decides not to continue up, do they frequently agree to SIT and WAIT until their teammates summit and then join them again on the way down? Climbers should have learned from the deadliest season on Everest and Beck Weathers that someone stopping should communicate that they will join the very NEXT group heading down and see their teammates back at camp! SO many climbers die because they sit for HOURS, sometimes late into the night and sometimes having refused offers to join others heading down, resolutely waiting to return with their teammates. The young husband who died in this story would be alive if he had informed his wife that he would head back down with the next group, instead of sitting and freezing for long hours waiting for her and their friend to summit and return for him. Tragic.I rated this book a 5 because it is riveting and it did elicit strong emotions in me--even if my strongest emotions were negative! This was a fascinating account of one of the deadliest days in mountaineering, when a number of climbers lost their lives on what is one the deadliest mountains in the world K2. Second only to Everest and much more difficult to climb, this mountain carries the aptly named "Killer Mountain" with good reason. Located in a more difficult region, it attracts far fewer climbers than Everest due to its difficulty. This is the page turning, thrilling, heartbreaking and sad story of a number of expeditions that wound up at the mountain in 2008 and ended in one of the deadliest days, where 11 people died. A mixture of bad weather, bad luck and a good deal of overconfidence and lack of skills on several climbers affected the whole group. This book accompanies a film of the same name. You are with the expedition as things unfold. The accounts were told by several survivors and family members and is a factual account of what happened, especially since a good deal of misinformation and blame surfaced after the tragedy. An excellent account of the adventurers and what it is like to climb high altitude mountains. I'm sorry there was no audio book version. There are a number of photographs that show just how dangerous and frightening this mountain is. 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