Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2
Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Nonfiction,Social Sciences
Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 Details
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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Reviews
Jennifer JORDAN a crit un bien beau livre, trs document rendant hommage cinq femmes-alpinistes dexception qui ont toutes en commun davoir gravi le K2, le second sommet le plus lev (8611m) de la plante.Isole la frontire sino-pakistanaise, des jours de marche de toute civilisation, dans un pays de culture profondment musulmane, cest une montagne impressionnante, dont lascension est extrme sur toutes ses faces (en mars 2012, seuls 300 personnes lavaient escalad, en comparaison de 5600 ayant atteint le sommet de lEverest, le plus haut sommet du monde).La polonaise Wanda RUTKIEWICK est la premire avoir russi ce challenge : cest probablement la plus grande alpiniste de tous les temps : ce que confirmera la lecture de cet ouvrage. Les autres sont moins connues et lintrt de ce livre est de nous les faire dcouvrir en dtail : qui a, en effet, entendu parler de Liliane BARRARD, Julie TULLIS, Alison HEARGRAVES ou encore de Chantal MAUDUIT, la plus atypique et la plus illumine dentre ellesCe livre, rcompens du National Outdoor book award 2005, na finalement quun seul inconvnient : il nest pas traduit en franais, mais sa lecture comblera tous les amoureux de la littrature de montagne, malheureusement encore trs limite en France
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