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Summits & Secrets

Summits & Secrets

Kurt Diemberger
Diemberger climbed two 8,000-meter peaks first and survived K2 in 1986 when thirteen others didn't. His memoir is philosophical, melancholic, and suffused with the awareness that every summit is borrowed time.
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Publisher Mountaineer Books
Published 1999
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