|  | | Last Blue Mountainby Ralph Barker
The heartrending true story of one of the most tragic of mountain misadventures.
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The 1957 expedition to Haramosh Peak in the Karakoram range in Pakistan is a tale in the same genre as Touching the Void - of an expedition that has gone terribly wrong.
Two climbers in the party are avalanched into a snow basin at 20000 feet, two other climbers try to rescue them but get stuck themselves in the process. The Last Blue Mountain tells of three days and three nights without food or water as the climbers try and extricate one another from an icy grave. As told by Ralph Barker, it is an epic of human endeavour and fortitude.
CONTENTS LISTING
Foreword by Lord Hunt
I. Haramosh
II. In the Kutwal Valley
III. Above the Haramosh La
IV. Trouble with the Hunzas
V. The Lost Food Dump
VI. The Climb to Camp IV
VII. The Snow Cave
VIII. Emery and the Crevasse
IX. The Avalanche
X. The Snow Basin
XI. The Treacherous Traverse
XII. The Tracks Divide
XIII. Fighting for Life
XIV. Disintegration
XV. Alone at Camp III
XVI. Last Nights on the Mountain
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