K2: Triumph and Tragedy

5 best books like K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Jim Curran): The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2, Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain, Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Author	Anatoli Boukreev
ISBN	0312965338

As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive...

On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions,...

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

Author	Nick Heil
ISBN	0805083103

The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest

On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was...

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

Author	Graham Bowley
ISBN	0061834785

In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down by New York Times reporter Graham Bowley is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height... but second to no peak in terms of danger. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism...

Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain

Author	Jennifer Jordan
ISBN	0060587156

Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back...

Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

Author	James M. Tabor
ISBN	0393061744

Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded and dying at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. The bodies were never recovered. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe.This book begins...