Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain

By Jennifer Jordan

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060587156
• ISBN13: 9780060587154
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Gripping

Jennifer Jordan writes a book that is impossible to put down. The subject is fascinating, and the story is very thoughtfully written and meticulously researched. Savage Summit is a tribute to women mountaineers who are clearly a unique breed. There is so little written about women in the world of high altitude mountaineering. Fascinating. Anyone who is an endurance athlete, a high achiever, or aspiring to be either must read Savage Summit!

Excellent Adventure Read that touches your heart

Jennifer's book is an excellent recollection of 5 women's stories of climbing an incredible 8,000 meter mountain, K2. There are very few books written about woman mountaineers so this was a sheer pleasure to find. I am a women mountaineer myself. I have yet to get to those peaks and through this book I better understanding their struggles in a man's world, love, desire and views. It truly touched my heart and mountain soul. Thank you Jennifer for all your work in such a wonderful work of love and curiousity! A must read that I have already recommended to several of my fellow mountaineer friends, male & female.

Could Not Put It Down -- A Keeper to Reread

This is a great read. It's not so much a mountaineering book (though it is that) as a book about women, compassionately, respectfully and truthfully portrayed. It's been weeks since I read it, and I still think about it often, still think about these amazing women. I know I'll read this book again. I keep talking about it, recommending it, wanting to give it as a gift.

SAVAGE SUMMIT SOARS!!!!!

With tears in my eyes, I have just closed the last page of Savage Summit - I have not read a book that has touched me so in a very long while - the author wrote so succinctly about all the phases of climbing that I felt that I was right there scaling the ice faces with the climbers - The poignancy and the depth that she gave to each woman was so clear that you were able to have each and every one of them touch your heart - it is a perfectly marvelous book from every aspect - the details, the pain, the joy, and the depths of despair that these men and women went through is indelibly brought out by her writing - I cannot wait for her next book! - It is bound to be a best seller.