Product Description

Following the stories of climbers from around the world, this title tells the story of: the young married couple whose rope was torn apart by an avalanche, sending the husband to his death; and the 61-year-old Frenchman who called his family from near the summit to say he wouldn't make it home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #176613 in Books
• Published on: 2010-07-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

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Review
Riveting and powerful; an extraordinary story of an extraordinary tragedy. Reading No Way Down is the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day (Sir Ranulph Fiennes )

A page-turning, utterly fresh take on the mountaineering experience, an Into Thin Air for a new century of adventurers, about a mountain even more treacherous than Everest (Doug Stanton, Author Of Horse Soldiers )

Unputdownable... a portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival' (Financial Times )

Artfully and assiduously pieces together an account of a fractious day in brutal real time. Fatality by fatality... devastating (New York Times )

A tour de force of a book...a triumph of storytelling (Associated Press )

I read this book in a single, sweaty-palmed sitting, and not because I intended to. I simply couldn't put it down. (Nick Heil, Author Of Dark Summit )

Brisk and engrossing... Bowley reveals a deep sympathy for his characters and their quest (Wall Street Journal )

Thrilling and wrenching (Kirkus Reviews )

About the Author
Graham Bowley was born in England in 1968. He is a reporter for the New York Times. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their two daughters and son.