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Jim Curran

Autor de K2: Triumph and Tragedy

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Jim Curran, himself a survivor of 1986, has traced the history of the mountain from the nineteenth-century pioneer explorers down to the present, and sees a repeating pattern of naked ambition, rivalry, misjudgment and recrimination. He has also found selfless heroism and impressive route-making on mostrar más the mountain that top climbers will always covet as the ultimate prize mostrar menos

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It's a P47 thing! Also the WWII Pacific campaigns. Decent and informative although I'd have liked more impressions on the "Jug" itself.
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martinhughharvey | otra reseña | Apr 10, 2017 |
Lucid and interesting memoir with a lot of useful operation and technical backfill.
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jamespurcell | otra reseña | Aug 22, 2016 |
Jim Curran's "K2: Triumph and Tragedy" is a solid account of the disastrous 1986 climbing season on K2, the world's second highest mountain. That year, 13 climbers from a variety of expeditions died on the mountain's infamous slopes.

Curran, who was on a British expedition as a filmmaker and did not climb much higher than 7,000 meters, watched from base camp as several people marched off to their deaths, including one of his closest friends. His pain is palpable during some of the later parts of the book and he concludes that successful high altitude mountaineers are the kind of people who push themselves to the brink precisely because it has always worked out before -- until it doesn't.

Curran is a middling writer... his early chapters get bogged down in a sort of name dropping scenario where he starts tossing around the names and accomplishments of climber after climber. Even though many of the names were familiar, it was just too much to take in at one time. The later chapters of the book are better, but more tragic as Curran waits at base camp for friends that will never return.

I've read a lot of mountaineering books over the years and found this one to be good over all, but not one of my favorites. I'd recommend it only to readers who are already fairly familiar with climbing and technical terms as Curran does not take a lot of time for explanations.
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amerynth | 3 reseñas más. | Sep 18, 2012 |
This book gives an invaluable account of how people deteriorate when stranded at high altitude. The more determined of the group retain the will to live and the drive to extricate themselves from the trap into which they have fallen. Other proven and determined climbers curl up in a ball and surrender themselves to the fates and ultimately death itself: a high quality mountaineering study, not to be confused with the light weight reading mentioned below. K2 retains it's reputation as a formidable climb and reminds climbers not to take it for granted.… (más)
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PAFCWoody | 3 reseñas más. | Apr 16, 2009 |

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