[PDF.70vl] K2: The 1939 Tragedy: The Full Story of the Ill-Fated Wiessner Expedition

K2: The 1939 Tragedy: The Full Story of the Ill-Fated Wiessner Expedition

[PDF.bn94] K2: The 1939 Tragedy: The Full Story of the Ill-Fated Wiessner Expedition

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 | #3752327 in Books |  1992-11-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| The anatomy of a famous disaster|By Susan R. Matthews|While "disaster" may be more usually applied to events which take the lives of more than the few people who climb mountains in any given expedition, the word seems well-applied to Weissner's 1939 expedition to K2. In light of more recent understanding about altitude sickness and the pernicious effects of "thin air" on r|.com |In 1939 an American expedition attempted to make a first ascent of the world's second-highest peak, K2, in the Himalayas. Two members of the party came within 800 feet of the summit before turning back, and in the confusion and inclement weather that fo

After an incident-packed 1938 attempt, an American team made another bid to climb the world's second highest peak the following year. The expedition was led by the mercurial Austrian emigre Fritz Wiessner. With the more experienced climbers recovering after the events of 1938, Wiessner was forced to take a weaker team that included a number of rich but inexperienced climber/adventurers. The problem was compounded by a personality clash between the leader and the second m...

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