William Lowell Putnam

A book that was supposed to set the record straight. It does indeed fill a literary gap which needed to be done. The authors, however, got a little carried away with themselves and missed what I felt was the most important thing to come from this expedition; the revelation Fritz Weissner discovered on his second summit attempt, that the gully beneath the frightening ice cliffs near the top of K2 (later to be named the bottle neck) provided viable access the upper slopes if one accepted a certain degree of risk. This fact was exploited by the eventual conquerors of K2.… (plus d'informations)