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Title: One Man’s Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy & Triumph on K2
Author: HAYES ADRIAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/04/2019
Imprint: PEN & SWORD
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
He was also one of the last people to speak to highly renowned mountaineering guide Marty
Schmidt, and his son Denali, who tragically died on K2 in 2013 during Adrian’s first attempt.
Adrian was the one to break the news of this tragedy to the outside world.
The author frankly discusses the true reason adventurers attempt major feats, and
controversially debunks the ‘adventure for charity’ claims. Foreword written by Sir Ranulph
Fiennes.
A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world’s most
unpredictable and perilous mountain.
Adrian Hayes details an intensely personal account of his attempts to climb K2 – the notorious
second highest mountain in the world – in 2013 and again in 2014. In this gripping narrative, the
author seamlessly shifts between his guilt and struggles as a father amid tumultuous personal
circumstances, the profound events on K2, and the powerful lessons for our lives in the world
below.
Absorbing and self-reflective, his journey is as much a story of climbing a mountain as it is a
compass for conquering the mountain within all of us.
Adrian Hayes is a record-breaking adventurer, speaker, business coach, documentary presenter
and campaigner whose accomplishments include Mount Everest, the North and South Poles, and
two Guinness World Records for polar expeditions. He has featured in three documentaries and is
the author of Footsteps of Thesiger, a memoir of his journey across the Arabian Desert.
25 colour illustrations
ISBN: 9781526751652
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm