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Vertical Limit: K2, The Savage Mountain

STORY PREFACE

What we get from this adventure
is just sheer joy.
And joy is, after all,
the end of life.

George Leigh Mallory
1922

 

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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Original Release Date:  December, 2000
Updated Quarterly, or as Needed

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Bos, Carole D. "Vertical Limit: K2, The Savage Mountain" AwesomeStories.com. Date of access
       <http://www.awesomestories.com/flicks/vertical-limit>.

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