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Winter 8000 : climbing the world's highest mountains in the coldest season / Bernadette McDonald.

by McDonald, Bernadette, 1951-

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Mountaineers Books, 2020.

796.5220922 M135w

Mountaineering -- History.

Snow and ice climbing.

9781680512922 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Winter eight thousand

268 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the art of suffering -- Everest -- Manaslu -- Dhaulagiri -- Cho Oyu -- Kangchenjunga -- Annapurna -- Lhotse -- Shishapangma -- Makalu -- Gasherbrum II -- Gasherbrum I -- Broad Peak -- Nanga Parbat -- K2 -- Epilogue : Ice Warriors -- Selected list of climbers -- Summary of first winter ascents of 8,000ers.

"While you wouldn't expect climbing an 8000-meter peak in winter to be a popular activity, there have been 178 expeditions (as of 2019) to the Himalaya and Karakoram during the cruelest season to do just that. Polish alpinist, Voytek Kurtyka, termed the practice the "art of suffering." The stories here range from the French climber Elisabeth Revol's solo winter attempt of Makalu, to American Cory Richards and his dramatic effort on Gasherbrum II with famed Italian alpinist Simone Moro and Kazakh hard man Denis Urubko. Award-winning author Bernadette McDonald traveled extensively to interview many of the climbers featured in this book--including Revol, the climbing partner of Tomek Mackiewicz, and Anna Mackiewicz, his widow, meeting them just a few months after Mackiewicz's death on Nanga Parbat. McDonald's many personal relationships with profiled climbers and her ability to tap into emotions and family histories lend Winter 8000 an intimacy too often lacking in mountaineering histories"--Amazon.com.

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