A review by lavi23
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain by Jennifer Jordan

adventurous slow-paced

3.0

The outset was great, but - I don‘t know. It seemed to be focused on the „scandalous“  parts. The one climber without scandals was omitted from the book. Though the author acknowledges that society‘s different standards for men/women are a problem (or even sets out on that premise) she just iterates comments like „how could she live her kids at home“ and does a fair amount of slut shaming. Of course I don‘t know the women as well, but I wonder whether they really felt that neatly in the stereotypes of French and Eastern European women.