One Man's Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 - Hardcover

Hayes, Adrian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526745372 ISBN 13: 9781526745378

Publisher: Pen and Sword History, 2019

Synopsis

A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world’s most unpredictable and perilous mountain.

Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meeres above sea level on the China–Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers. Alongside severe altitude, the weather is notoriously volatile and the climb relentlessly steep. A staggering one in four attempts result in death on the mountain.

In One Man’s Climb, Adrian Hayes details an intensely personal account of his attempts to climb K2 – first in 2013 and again in 2014. Absorbing and self-reflective, his journey is as much a story of climbing a mountain as it is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to endure.

About this title

About the Author:

Adrian Hayes is a record-breaking adventurer, author, keynote speaker, leadership & team coach, documentary presenter and sustainability campaigner.  An Arabic and Nepalese speaking former British Army Gurkha officer who also spent two years in the Special Forces, he has two Guinness World Records for Polar expeditions to his name, has featured in three documentaries, and is also the author of Footsteps of Thesiger, an account of his journey across the Arabian Desert.

Review:

He’s been to the North Pole, the South Pole and Mount Everest — the top, the bottom and the peak of the world. He’s trekked the vast Arabian Desert. So what do you do for an encore?
Hayes provides the answer in “One Man's Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy, and Triumph on K2.”
(JACQUELINE CUTLER New York Daily News)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1526745372
• ISBN 13: 9781526745378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248