{"product_id":"k2-triumph-and-tragedy-isbn-9780395485903","title":"K2: Triumph and Tragedy","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eK2, \"the savage mountain\", is the second-highest peak in the world - and the most difficult to climb. In 1986, it was the site of both dazzling triumph and great loss as twenty-seven men and women reached the top but thirteen died trying. To this day it remains the single greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering. Curran was there to record it all in words and photographs: courage and obsession, luminous success and thwarted ambition.\u003c\/div\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"A monument not only to human will and endurance but to the inscrutable vastness of the great white mountain itself.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping story that belongs with the classics of mountaineering.\" —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated.\" —\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889964478693,"sku":"NP9780395485903","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780395485903.jpg?v=1730232281","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/k2-triumph-and-tragedy-isbn-9780395485903","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}