No Way Down, Graham Bowley
No Way Down, Graham Bowley
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No Way Down
Life and Death on K2

Author: Graham Bowley

Narrator: Sam Breen

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/27/2023


Synopsis

"No Way Down is both a gripping read and a clear-eyed investigation of the hubris, politics, and bad luck that brought on one of the worst disasters in modern mountaineering history." —Michael Kodas, author of High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed

"Graham Bowley's No Way Down does a great job of putting you on the mountain. It is a refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain." —Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the Storm

In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down by New York Times reporter Graham Bowley is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height . . . but second to no peak in terms of danger. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism and survival, No Way Down is an amazing feat of storytelling and adventure writing, and, in the words of explorer and author Sir Ranulph Fiennes, "the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day."

About Graham Bowley

Graham Bowley is a reporter for the New York Times. He grew up in England and lives in New York with his wife and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by zuza_zaksiazkowane on April 02, 2022

Historia, mająca miejsce na K2 w 2008 jest okrutna i pod jakimś względem wspaniała, ale sama książka mocno średnia. Autor miał zero wrażliwości dla tematu, bo sam jest nijak niezwiązany z górami.......more

Goodreads review by Alexa on January 20, 2022

Chef's kiss. Another fantastic entry in mountaineering disaster canon, and a must-read if you're particularly interested in the 2008 disastrous K2 season. This one in particularly I liked the angle of a journalist who is NOT a mountaineer tackling this complicated story from all angles. It's free of......more

Goodreads review by Ellis on November 18, 2010

Yikes. This book is rather more gruesome than most of the mountain-woe books I've read. People just go sliding right off cliffs, someone finds another team member's eyeball in the snow after an avalanche and later on, that same person's penis is described as "frozen." Which makes sense in its bluntn......more

Goodreads review by Maria on June 09, 2024

The  story of the deadliest single accident in K2 mountaineering history. Out of 25 climbers, 11 died in one day and 3 were seriously injured. The books is based on the interviews and stories of the survivors so there is still not a clear understanding of some events but we know the main cause was a......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on June 27, 2016

Like everyone else who read Krakauer's Into Thin Air, I've been obsessed ever since with tales of high-altitude climbing, particularly when that climbing goes wrong. This book is about the 2008 disaster on K2, which left 11 climbers dead. One climber saw her husband die in an avalanche that barely m......more