Winter 8000
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Winter 8000

Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season

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eBook - ePub

Winter 8000

Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season

About this book

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Mountain Literature

  • Recounts some of the most dangerous feats in mountaineering history
  • Insights into the human attraction to danger and suffering
  • Award-winning author

While you wouldn't expect climbing an 8000-meter peak in winter to be a popular activity, there have been 178 expeditions (as of 2019) to the Himalaya and Karakoram during the cruelest season to do just that. Polish alpinist, Voytek Kurtyka, termed the practice the "art of suffering." The stories here range from the French climber Elisabeth Revol's solo winter attempt of Makalu, to American Cory Richards and his dramatic effort on Gasherbrum II with famed Italian alpinist Simone Moro and Kazakh hard man Denis Urubko. Award-winning author Bernadette McDonald traveled extensively to interview many of the climbers featured in this book--including Revol, the climbing partner of Tomek Mackiewicz, and Anna Mackiewicz, his widow, meeting them just a few months after Mackiewicz's death on Nanga Parbat. McDonald's many personal relationships with profiled climbers and her ability to tap into emotions and family histories lend Winter 8000 an intimacy too often lacking in mountaineering histories.These accounts prove the point: Nature is not subservient to man.

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Information

Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781680512939
Edition
0
Subtopic
Historical Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Winter 8000
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter One: Everest: First Time Lucky
  7. Chapter Two: Manaslu: Zakopane Boys
  8. Chapter Three: Dhaulagiri: The Looking Glass
  9. Chapter Four: Cho Oyu: Two for Two
  10. Chapter Five: Kangchenjunga: How Much Is Too Much?
  11. Chapter Six: Annapurna: Carpe Diem
  12. Chapter Seven: Lhotse: Climbing in a Corset
  13. Chapter Eight: Shishapangma: The Italian
  14. Chapter Nine: Makalu: Two Against the Wind
  15. Chapter Ten: Gasherbrum II: Avalanche
  16. Chapter Eleven: Gasherbrum I: Lost Fathers
  17. Chapter Twelve: Broad Peak: Unfinished Business
  18. Chapter Thirteen: Nanga Parbat: The Magnificent Obsession
  19. Chapter Fourteen: K2: A Mountain for Thoroughbreds
  20. Epilogue: Ice Warriors
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Appendix A: Selected List of Climbers
  23. Appendix B: Summary of First Winter Ascents of 8,000ers
  24. Notes
  25. Select Bibliography and Sources
  26. Index