George Mallory, the legendary British mountain climber, was asked why he wanted to climb
Mt. Everest. "Because it’s there," he said. Today, 75 years later, people are still climbing the great mountains of the world because they are "there".
K2, the most dangerous mountain to climb, is in the Karakoram Range. At 28,250 feet (8,611 meters) no mountain - save Everest - is higher. But no mountain - even
Everest - is
steeper.
This is a story of the majesty - and mystery - of K2. And it is a story of death-defying, risk-taking, mountain-climbing courage. The kind of courage all humans possess but rarely find the need to use.
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