Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 Review
This is an excellent account of the 5 women that reached the summit of K2 as well as their extensive backgrounds. Each of the women was from a different walk of life, from women who were nationally sponsored to a house wife who had to live out of her car and bring her children to base camp with her. But one thing was present in all the women, the desire to climb mountains and the draw that the mountains had when they went back to their "normal" lives. The author's research is apparent in the numerous sources for her accounts of the lives of these women, from climbing partners to children, journals to radio transmissions, her writing is filled with accuracy. But this is also an adventure story that you won't want to put down. While you already know the outcome, you want to learn how these 5 women lost their lives to the mountains. An excellent adventure story.
Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 Overview
Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs.
In Savage Summit, Jennifer Jordan shares the tragic, compelling, inspiring, and extraordinary true stories of a handful of courageous women -- mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, poets and engineers -- who defeated this formidable mountain yet ultimately perished in pursuit of their dreams.
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Customer Reviews
A Wonderful Book! - G. FitzGerald - Springfield, MA
I've read over a dozen books on high-altitude climbing in the past six months, some wonderful stories -- classics and newer releases, but this one made my heart ache. I couldn't wait to get back to it, and I hated for it to end. Great history, great biography, beautifully written. I shed more than one tear for these brave, unique women, all of whom, it seemed, deserved much more of life than they got. This is a wonderful book, even if you have no interest in high-altitude climbing or about K2.
In the end, you could feel Jennifer Jordan's genuine sorrow for her subjects, and you want to share her pain and give her a hug for her labors. The best written mountaineering story of all I've read.
Inspirational - Anthony M. Frasca - East Setauket, NY USA
Savage Summit is essentially a biography of women mountaineers who have climbed K2. A number of world famous female mountaineers are celebrated extensively including Wanda Rutkiewicz, Chantal Mauduit, Alison Hargreaves, Julie Tullis and Liliane Barrard. The book was extremely well-written and extensively researched. It see-saws from uplifting to grievously sad. All the women met their deaths in the mountains between ages 33 and 49 leaving a trail of grieving parents, siblings, friends, lovers, husbands and children. Jordan captures their emotions, as well as her own, in a page turning exhibition of outstanding writing.
Bravo!
Great book - Mahesh Andar - Pune, Maharashtra India
Great book. A well written account of six great women mountaineers, their travails and the agony and ecstasy of climbing the world's second highest mountain. Very highly recommended .
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