K2: The Price of Conquest

K2: The Price of Conquest

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.
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Publisher Mountaineer Books
Published 2006
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