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Piégés sur le K2 : L'une des épopée les plus dramatiques de l'histoire de l'himalayisme
Graham Bowley
- Editions Du Mont-Blanc
- 3 Juillet 2024
- 9782365451826
Dans la lignée de Tragédie à l'Everest et de La mort suspendue, Piégés sur le K2 est le récit poignant de la pire catastrophe d'alpinisme survenue sur le K2, le deuxième sommet après l'Everest en termes d'altitude mais qui n'est surpassé par aucun autre sommet en termes de danger. Au travers de Piégés sur le K2, le journaliste au New York Times, Graham Bowley, recrée l'une des histoires de mort et de survie les plus dramatiques de l'histoire de l'alpinisme, l'ascension du K2 en 2008, qui a coûté la vie à onze alpinistes. Après avoir atteint le sommet, une avalanche massive de blocs de glace a violemment emporté une grande partie des cordes fixes, créant ainsi une situation périlleuse pour la descente nocturne de plus d'une douzaine de grimpeurs. Certains d'entre eux ont miraculeusement survécu.
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No way down ; piégés sur le K2 ; l'une des épopées les plus dramatiques de l'histoire de l'himalayisme
Graham Bowley
- Glenat
- 22 Mars 2017
- 9782365450300
Le récit de la catastrophe qui a frappé huit équipes internationales d'alpinistes le 1er août 2008, durant l'ascension du K2. Une douzaine de grimpeurs sans oxygène et sans lampe frontale ont dû descendre le couloir de nuit, sans cordes, après la chute d'un bloc de glace.
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No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley. K2, August 1st, 2008. Thirty climbers are attempting the summit of the most savage mountain on Earth. They make it. But before they start their descent an ice shelf collapses, sweeping away their ropes. It is dark. Their lines are gone. They are low on oxygen. And it is getting very, very cold. How many will make it down alive? 'A gripping hour-by-hour dissection of events in the Western Himalayas over three deadly days. A fitting shelfmate to the modern classic Into Thin Air . A cracking read' Sunday Times 'Stories of heroism, sadness and extraordinary endurance against all the odds [are] woven into a thrilling drama' Daily Mail 'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival . . . as complete a version of the calamitous story as will probably ever emerge' Financial Times 'The best mountain-disaster memoir since Into Thin Air' Mail on Sunday Graham Bowley was born in England in 1968. He is a reporter for the New York Times. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their two daughters and son.
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The summit of K2, 1 August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and sweeps away their ropes. They don't know it yet, but they will be forced to descend into the blackness with no lines. Of the thirty who set out, eleven will never make it back.
Following the stories of climbers from around the world, No Way Down weaves a tale of human courage, folly, survival and devastating loss. The stories are heart-wrenching: the young married couple whose rope was torn apart by an avalanche, sending the husband to his death; the 61-year-old Frenchman who called his family from near the summit to say he wouldn't make it home. So what drove them to try to conquer this elusive peak? And what went wrong that fateful day?
