K2: The Savage Mountain
Author(s):
Houston, Charles, Robert Bates, et al.
Copyright: 1994, Adventure Library, NY
Specifications: Ltd Signed Ed, 8vo, pp.xx, 214, 21 color & 9 bw photos, 12 sketches, map, appendices, map eps, pictorial cloth
Condition: signed Bates & Houston, issued w/o dj, cloth new
Account of the 1953 3rd American Karakoram expedition to K2. One of the pinnacles of American Himalayan mountaineering with Schoening's incredible belay saving the entire expedition. This reprint edition contains transcipts of tape recordings made at base camp following the accident. This nicely done special limited edition has an additional signature page inserted prior to the dedication page.
Neate H118, Yak H245.