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List of books about K2

Index List of books about K2

The following is a list of books about K2, a mountain in the Karakorum Range between Pakistan and China, listed by expedition date: 1887 - British - Younghusband. [1]

39 relations: Achille Compagnoni, Aleister Crowley, Anna Czerwińska, Ardito Desio, Benoît Chamoux, Bernadette McDonald, Charles Snead Houston, China, Damian O'Brien, Dušan Jelinčič, Ed Viesturs, Eric Shipton, Francis Younghusband, Fritz Wiessner, Galen Rowell, Greg Mortenson, Jim Whittaker, Jon Krakauer, Jules Jacot-Guillarmod, Karakoram, Kenneth Mason (geographer), Kurt Diemberger, Lino Lacedelli, Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, Maurice Isserman, Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Oscar Eckenstein, Pakistan, Pat Falvey, Peter Zuckerman, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Reinhold Messner, Rick Ridgeway, Robert Bates (mountaineer), Stacy Allison, Three Cups of Tea, Urdu, Walter Bonatti.

Achille Compagnoni

Achille Compagnoni (26 September 1914 – 13 May 2009) was an Italian mountaineer and skier.

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Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.

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Anna Czerwińska

Anna Czerwińska (born July 10, 1949 in Warsaw) is a Polish mountaineer, known for being the oldest woman to Summit Mount Everest (at the time) at the age of 50 (born 7/10/49 climbed Everest from the Nepal side on 5/22/2000).

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Ardito Desio

Count Ardito Desio (18 April 1897 – 12 December 2001) was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.

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Benoît Chamoux

Benoît Chamoux (February 19, 1961 – October 6, 1995) was a French Alpinist, who claimed to have summited 13 of the Eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.

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Bernadette McDonald

Bernadette McDonald (born 1951) is a Canadian-born author of several non-fiction books, primarily on mountain culture topics, including Brotherhood of the Rope, Tomaž Humar, Freedom Climbers and Art Of Freedom.

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Charles Snead Houston

Charles Snead Houston (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Damian O'Brien

Damian O'Brien (born 1980) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a left corner-forward for the Tipperary senior team.

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Dušan Jelinčič

Dušan Jelinčič (born 1953) is a writer and a journalist from the community of Slovene minority in Italy from Trieste, Italy.

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Ed Viesturs

Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker.

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Eric Shipton

Eric Earle Shipton CBE (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977) was a distinguished English Himalayan mountaineer.

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Francis Younghusband

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

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Fritz Wiessner

Fritz Wiessner (February 26, 1900 – July 3, 1988) was a German American pioneer of free climbing.

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Galen Rowell

Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and climber.

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Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson (born December 27, 1957) is an American professional speaker, writer, veteran, and former mountaineer.

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Jim Whittaker

James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American mountaineer from Seattle, As a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth in 1963, he was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing.

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Jules Jacot-Guillarmod

Jules Jacot-Guillarmod is a Swiss physician, mountaineer and photographer.

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Karakoram

The Karakoram, or Karakorum is a large mountain range spanning the borders of Pakistan, India, and China, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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Kenneth Mason (geographer)

Lieut-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC (10 September 1887 – 2 June 1976) was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford.

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Kurt Diemberger

Kurt Diemberger (born March 16, 1932) is an Austrian mountaineer and author of several books.

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Lino Lacedelli

Lino Lacedelli (4 December 1925 – 20 November 2009) was an Italian mountaineer.

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Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (12 April 1856 – 19 April 1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.

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Maurice Isserman

Maurice Isserman (born March 12, 1951), formerly William R. Kenan and the James L. Ferguson chairs, is a long-time Professor of History at Hamilton College and important contributor to the "new history of American communism," which reinterpreted the role of the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Mustansar Hussain Tarar

Mustansar Hussain Tarar (مستنصر حسين تارڑ) (born 1 March 1939) is a Pakistani author, travel enthusiast, writer, novelist, columnist, TV host and former actor.

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Oscar Eckenstein

Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 1921) was an English rock climber and mountaineer, and a pioneer in the sport of bouldering.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pat Falvey

Pat Falvey is an Irish high-altitude mountaineer, polar explorer, expedition leader, author, corporate and motivational speaker.

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Peter Zuckerman

Peter Zuckerman (born December 27, 1979) is an American journalist and author who has focused his career in court reporting, investigative journalism, adventure stories and socially progressive political campaigns.

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Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta

Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta (Aimone Roberto Margherita Maria Giuseppe Torino; 9 March 1900 – 29 January 1948) was a prince of Italy's reigning House of Savoy and an officer of the Royal Italian Navy.

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Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi

Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (29 January 1873 – 18 March 1933) was a Spanish mountaineer and explorer, briefly Infante of Spain as son of Amadeo I of Spain, member of the royal House of Savoy and cousin of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III.

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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner (born 17 September 1944) is an Italian mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the bilingual Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Rick Ridgeway

Rick Ridgeway (born August 12, 1949) is a mountaineer and adventurer, who during his career has also been an environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and businessman.

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Robert Bates (mountaineer)

Robert Hicks Bates (January 14, 1911 – September 13, 2007) was an American mountaineer, author and teacher, who is best remembered for his parts in the first ascent of Mount Lucania and the American expeditions to K2 in 1938 and 1953.

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Stacy Allison

Stacy Allison was the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, in 1988.

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Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو ALA-LC:, or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language.

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Walter Bonatti

Walter Bonatti (22 June 1930 in Bergamo – 13 September 2011 in Rome) was an Italian mountain climber, explorer and journalist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_about_K2

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