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About the Author

GRAHAM BOWLEY
is a reporter for the
New York Times.
He grew up in England and lives in New York with his wife and three children.

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NO WAY DOWN
. Copyright © 2010 by Graham Bowley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bowley, Graham.

No way down: life and death on K2 / by Graham Bowley.

p. cm.

Summary: “A dramatic account of the worst disaster in the history of mountain climbing on K2, the world's second highest peak”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-06-183478-3 (hardback)

1 Mountaineering—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 2. Mountains—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain)—Difficulty of ascent. 3. Mountaineers—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 4. Mountaineering accidents—Pakistan—K2 (Mountain) 5. K2 (Pakistan: Mountain)—Description and travel. I. Title.

GV199.44.P18B68    2010

796.522095491—dc22        2010005706

EPub Edition © May 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200290-7

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