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The following is a list of books about K2, a mountain in the
Karakorum Range between
Pakistan and
China, listed by expedition date:
1887 -
British -
Younghusband
1892 -
British -
Conway
1902 - International -
Eckenstein and
Crowley
1909 -
Italian -
Luigi Amedeo
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Filippo De Filippi, La spedizione nel Karakoram e nell'Imalaia occidentale, 1912, (
Yakushi F71a), (
edition)
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Filippo De Filippi, Karakorum and Western Himalaya, 1912, (
Yakushi F71b), (
/ (
edition)
-
Mirella Tenderini and
Michael Shandrick, The Duke of Abruzzi: An Explorer's Life, 1997
1929 -
Italian -
Aimone di Savoia-Aosta
1937 -
British -
Shipton
1938 American Karakoram expedition -
American -
Houston
1939 American Karakoram expedition -
American -
Wiessner
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Andrew Kauffman and William Putnam, K2; The 1939 Tragedy, 1992, (
Yakushi K66)
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Fritz Wiessner, K2, Tragödien und Sieg am Zweithöchsten Berg der Erde, 1955, (
Yakushi W152), (
edition only)
-
Jennifer Jordan, The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2, 2010
1953 American Karakoram expedition -
American -
Houston
-
Charles Houston and
Bob Bates, K2, The Savage Mountain, 1954, (
Yakushi H429a)
-
Charles Houston,
Bob Bates and George Bell, K2, 8611m, 1954, (
Yakushi H430), (
edition only)
1954
1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2 -
Italian -
Desio
-
Mohammad Ata-Ullah, Citizen of Two Worlds, 1960, (
Yakushi A284)
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Walter Bonatti, The Mountains of My Life, 2001
-
Walter Bonatti, Processo al K2, 1985, (
Yakushi B453), (
edition)
-
Walter Bonatti, K2. La verità. 1954-2004, 2005, (
edition)
-
Achille Compagnoni, Uomini sul K2, 1958, (
Yakushi C328), (
edition only)
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Achille Compagnoni, Tricolore sul K2, 1965, (
Yakushi C329), (
edition only)
-
Achille Compagnoni, K2: conquista italiana tra storia e memoria, 2004, (
edition only)
-
Ardito Desio, Ascent of K2. Second Highest Peak in the World, 1955, (
Yakushi D167b), (
edition)
-
Ardito Desio, Libro Bianco, 1956, (
Yakushi D168), (
edition only)
-
Mario Fantin, Sogno Visuto, 1958, (
Yakushi F10), (
edition only)
-
Lino Lacedelli and Giovanni Cenacchi, K2: The Price of Conquest, 2006, (
edition)
- Robert Marshall, K2. Lies and Treachery, 2009
1975 -
American -
Whittaker
1978 -
American -
Whittaker
1979 -
French -
Mellet
1979 - International -
Messner
1986
- John Barry, K2, Savage Mountain, Savage Summer, 1987, (
Yakushi B135)
-
Benoît Chamoux, Le Vertige de l'Infini, 1988, (
Yakushi C125), (
edition only)
-
Jim Curran, K2, Triumph and Tragedy., 1987, (
Yakushi C405a)
-
Anna Czerwińska, Groza wokół K2, 1990, (
Yakushi C420), (
edition only)
-
Kurt Diemberger, The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny, 1991, (
Yakushi D234d), (
edition)
1993 -
American /
Canadian -
Allison
2008
-
Graham Bowley, No way down - Life and death on K2, 2010
-
Marco Confortola, Giorni di ghiaccio. Agosto 2008. La tragedia del K2, 2009, (
edition)
-
Damien O'Brien, The Time Has Come: Ger McDonnell - His Life & His Death on K2, 2012
-
Wilco van Rooijen, Surviving K2, 2010
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Freddie Wilkinson, One Mountain Thousand Summits, 2010
-
Peter Zuckerman and
Amanda Padoan, Buried in the Sky, 2012
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Pat Falvey and
Pemba Gyalje Sherpa, The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2's Deadliest Days, 2013
General literature on 'K2'
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Fulvio Campiotti, K2, 1954, (
Yakushi C36), (
edition only)
-
Jim Curran, K2, The Story of the Savage Mountain, 1995
-
Kurt Diemberger and Roberto Mantovani, K2. Challenging the sky, 1995
-
Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit, 2001
-
Maurice Isserman and
Stewart Weaver, Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, 2008
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Dušan Jelinčič, Zvezdnate noči (Starry Nights), 2006
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Jennifer Jordan, Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, 2005
-
Jon Krakauer, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains, 1997
-
Kenneth Mason, Abode of Snow, 1955, (
Yakushi M214a), (
edition)
-
Bernadette McDonald, Brotherhood of the Rope: The biography of Charles Houston, 2007
-
Reinhold Messner, K2 Chogori. La grande montagna, 2004, (
edition)
-
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin,
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, 2007
-
Richard Sale, The Challenge of K2. A History of the Savage Mountain., 2011
-
Mustansar Hussain Tarar, K2 Kahani, (in
Urdu), 1994
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Ed Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks, 2007
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Ed Viesturs, K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, Aug 2010
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Mick Conefrey, The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent, April 2015
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