A review by msmandrake
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain by Jennifer Jordan

4.0

The stories of the first five women to summit K2, all of whom are now dead. Three were killed on their way down, the other two died on Kanchenjunga and Dhaulagiri. Two British, two French, one Polish...all pretty much nuts. But in their own way, it was very interesting to see how completely different life situations all ended up leading them to the same insane spot. One thing did bug me a bit, since the author obviously could not interview them, she just filled in what she figured they were thinking or feeling at any given moment and this got a bit melodramatic at times. But overall this was quite fascinating.