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Copyright © 2009 by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com

BROADWAY BOOKS and the Broadway Books colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Viesturs, Ed.

K2 : life and death on the world’s most dangerous mountain / Ed

Viesturs with David Roberts.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-7679-3261-5

1. Mountaineering—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain)

2. Mountains—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain)—Difficulty of ascent.

3. Mountaineers—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 4. Mountaineering

accidents—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 5. K2 (Pakistan : Mountain)—

Description and travel. I. Roberts, David. II. Title.

GV199.44.P18V54 2009

796.522095491—dc20 2009016390

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Table of Contents

Cover

Other Book By This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Chapter 1 - The Motivator

Chapter 2 - Decision

Chapter 3 - Breakthrough

Chapter 4 - The Great Mystery

Photo Insert 1

Chapter 5 - Brotherhood

Chapter 6 - The Price of Conquest

Chapter 7 - The Dangerous Summer

Photo Insert 2

Epilogue: The Holy Grail

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Copyright

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