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K2: Challenging the Sky (Hardcover)

by Roberto Mantovani (Author), Kurt Diemberger (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)


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162 color photos. 10 3/4 x 14 1/4. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Text: English (translation)

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  • Hardcover: 141 pages
  • Publisher: Mountaineers Books (May 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0898865182
  • ISBN-13: 978-0898865189
  • Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 10.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,472,558 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous pictures, somewhat dry text, January 13, 2000
By James M. Hare (Mays Landing, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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-although the text may just have suffered in the translations. If you want to see the single best collection of K2 photographs I've ever seen, and I have them all, this is the book for you. A bargain at anything less than about $250.00, it's bound and published beautifully (at least my copy was!)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent photos, Rich in History, August 24, 2000
By Mad Dog "maddog6969" (TimbuckThree, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
If you've read all the classic historical books of ascents on K2 except this one, your library is incomplete. The power of this book is in part within it's outstanding photography and also has to do with how well it pulls so much information together. This is a complex mountain but the information is presented clearly such that one feels more comfortable with the different sides of the mountain and their challenges to the climber.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous pictures. You instantly dream to be there., September 10, 1999
This book is a very good one. I found it to be the best companion (for the beautiful photos in large format e for showing clearly the several attempted routes on K2) to another 5-star book, "K2, Triumph and Tragedy". Bravo Roberto Mantovani!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Historically Inaccurate, But Great Mountaineering Pictures
I bought this book years ago and never tire at the wonderful pictures of this austere and formidible peak that most mountaineers in the know call the toughest mountain to climb in... Read more
Published 10 months ago by A. Pulsipher

4.0 out of 5 stars Photographic Masterpiece
K2 is an endlessly fascinating. Beautiful and cruel, savage and mighty, mysterious and far away - seen by few and successfully ascended by even fewer - it draws and repels... Read more
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