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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250214101800.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780767932608 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NISER LIBRARY |
| Transcribing agency |
NISER LIBRARY |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
796.52 |
| Item number |
VIE-K |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Viesturs, Ed. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
K2 : |
| Remainder of title |
life and death on the world's most dangerous mountain |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Broadway Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
342 p., [16] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some col.) ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-332) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Ed Viesturs, one of the world’s premier high-altitude mountaineers, explores the remarkable history of K2 and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time, he probes the mountain’s most memorable sagas in order to illustrate lessons about the fundamental questions mountaineering raises—questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one’s teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and got caught in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death before Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott’s.<br/><br/>Focusing on seven of the mountain’s most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs’s personal collection and from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world’s ultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mountaineering |
| Geographic subdivision |
Pakistan |
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K2 (Mountain) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mountains |
| Geographic subdivision |
Pakistan |
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K2 ( Mountain) |
| General subdivision |
Difficulty of ascent. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mountaineers |
| Geographic subdivision |
Pakistan |
| -- |
K2 ( Mountain) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mountaineering accidents |
| Geographic subdivision |
Pakistan |
| -- |
K2 ( Mountain) |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
K2 (Pakistan : Mountain) |
| General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Roberts, David |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Reviews |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7832403-k2?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13#CommunityReviews">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7832403-k2?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13#CommunityReviews</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Universal Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |
