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Author: Charles Houston ,
Robert Bates ,
Jim Wickwire ,
Jonathan Waterman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.358kg
ISBN: 9781493050246
ISBN 10: 1493050249
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 October 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Houston and Bates were the first Americans to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain peak. Such an endeavor is remarkably dangerous even now, but reading of the use of equipment as simple as woolen mittens, canvas and wood packs, etc., illustrates the bravery--or perhaps foolhardiness--of such an undertaking then. Five Miles High covers their first climb in 1938 (this account was published a year later), while 1954's K2 chronicles the 1953 climb, which proved far more difficult. --Library Journal Here is a great story, simply and grippingly told, which the glory of Everest should not be allowed to obscure. --New York Times
""Houston and Bates were the first Americans to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain peak. Such an endeavor is remarkably dangerous even now, but reading of the use of equipment as simple as woolen mittens, canvas and wood packs, etc., illustrates the bravery--or perhaps foolhardiness--of such an undertaking then. Five Miles High covers their first climb in 1938 (this account was published a year later), while 1954's K2 chronicles the 1953 climb, which proved far more difficult."" --Library Journal ""Here is a great story, simply and grippingly told, which the glory of Everest should not be allowed to obscure."" --New York Times
"""Houston and Bates were the first Americans to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain peak. Such an endeavor is remarkably dangerous even now, but reading of the use of equipment as simple as woolen mittens, canvas and wood packs, etc., illustrates the bravery--or perhaps foolhardiness--of such an undertaking then. Five Miles High covers their first climb in 1938 (this account was published a year later), while 1954's K2 chronicles the 1953 climb, which proved far more difficult."" --Library Journal ""Here is a great story, simply and grippingly told, which the glory of Everest should not be allowed to obscure."" --New York Times"
Author Information
Charles Houston and Robert Bates organized the American expeditions to K2 in 1938 and 1953. Houston, a doctor of internal medicine, taught at the University of Vermont. Bates, a past president of the American Alpine Club, received his doctorate in English and taught at Phillips Exeter Academy.
