No Way Down
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Copyright
NO WAY DOWN. Copyright © 2010 by Graham Bowley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bowley, Graham.
No way down: life and death on K2 / by Graham Bowley.
p. cm.
Summary: “A dramatic account of the worst disaster in the history of mountain climbing on K2, the world’s second highest peak”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-183478-3 (hardback)
1 Mountaineering—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 2. Mountains—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain)—Difficulty of ascent. 3. Mountaineers—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 4. Mountaineering accidents—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 5. K2 (Pakistan: Mountain)—Description and travel. I. Title.
GV199.44.P18B68 2010
796.522095491—dc22 2010005706
EPub Edition © May 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200290-7
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