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K2: The Price of Conquest
Lino Lacedelli and Giovanni Cenacchi
Lino Lacedelli's long-delayed account of the first ascent of K2 in 1954 — finally setting the record straight about who reached the summit and what really happened with the oxygen. Italian mountaineering politics at their most bitter.
Mountains & Climbing
History
Himalaya
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Publisher
Mountaineer Books
Published
2006
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