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Written on Dec 7, 2014
What was interesting about this book that instead of focusing on the climbers it centered more around the porters who make it possible. Sherpa's have been assisting climbers since Hillary reached the summit of Everest in 1953. There are low altitude porters and high altitude porters, they come poverty, political and ethic strife to become the most skillful mountain climbers. One in every four people who have attempted the summit have died trying. It is more difficult and hazardous to reach the peak of K2 from the Chinese side; thus, it is usually climbed from the Pakistani side.
The book is well written and very readable, one of the best books I have read on the 8,000ers.