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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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Credits

Jacket design by Christopher Tobias

Jacket photograph Â© Galen Rowell/CORBIS

Copyright

NO WAY DOWN
. Copyright Â© 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.

FIRST EDITION

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”âProvided by publisher.

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

1 MountaineeringâPakistanâK2 (Mountain) 2. MountainsâPakistanâK2 (Mountain)âDifficulty of ascent. 3. MountaineersâPakistanâK2 (Mountain) 4. Mountaineering accidentsâPakistanâK2 (Mountain) 5. K2 (Pakistan: Mountain)âDescription and travel. I. Title.

GV199.44.P18B68 Â Â Â 2010

796.522095491âdc22 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2010005706

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

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