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Many of the men and women who have sought to reach the summit have failed, often with tragic consequences - over 70 of them have died or disappeared. Yet this, the second highest mountain on Earth, continues to exercise for the worlds top mountaineers a special, and all too often lethal attraction.
Richard Sales fascinating new book traces the climbing history of K2 over the last 150 years, he shows in graphic detail how it acquired this awesome reputation: it was during the first serious attempts on the summit in the 1930s and 1950s that K2 became known as the Savage Mountain
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The author is very grateful to the following for information and photographs: the American Alpine Club, Willi Bauer, the late Charles Houston, the late Lino Lacedelli, Mario Lacedelli, the late Bob Marshall, Lars Nessa, Wilco van Rooijen, Mike Searle, Pavel Shabalin, the US Library of Congress and Jim Wickwire. Thanks also to Reinhold Schmuck for assistance with translations, to Tadeusz Hudowski and Glyn Hughes at the UK Alpine Club Library, and to Eugene Rae at the RGS Library.
Key: x = ascent without supplementary oxygen
f = female climber
Note: climbers ascending the peak for the second time are listed but not numbered in this tablex
| 1 | Achille COMPAGNONI | It | 31. 07. 1954 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 2 | Lino LACEDELLI | It | 31. 07. 1954 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 3 | Shoji NAKAMURA | Jp | 08. 08. 1977 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 4 | Tsuneo SHIGEHIRO | Jp | 08. 08. 1977 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 5 | Takayoshi TAKATSUKA | Jp | 08. 08. 1977 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 6 | Ashraf AMAN | Pak | 09. 08. 1977 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 7 | Mitsuo HIROSHIMA | Jp | 09. 08. 1977 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 8 | Masahide ONODERA | Jp | 09. 08. 1977 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 9 | Hideo YAMAMOTO | Jp | 09. 08. 1977 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 10 | Louis F. REICHARDT | x | USA | 06. 09. 1978 | NE Ridge -Abruzzi Spur |
| 11 | James WICKWIRE | USA | 06. 09. 1978 | NE Ridge -Abruzzi Spur | |
| 12 | Richard RIDGEWAY | USA | 07. 09. 1978 | NE Ridge -Abruzzi Spur | |
| 13 | John ROSKELLEY | x | USA | 07. 09. 1978 | NE Ridge -Abruzzi Spur |
| 14 | Michael DACHER | x | Ger | 12. 07. 1979 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 15 | Reinhold MESSNER | x | It | 12. 07. 1979 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 16 | Eiho OHTANI | Jp | 07. 08. 1981 | West Ridge/SW side | |
| 17 | Nazir Ahmad SABIR | Pak | 07. 08. 1981 | West Ridge/SW side | |
| 18 | Nao SAKASHITA | x | Jp | 14. 08. 1982 | North Ridge |
| 19 | Yukihiro YANAGISAWA | x | Jp | 14. 08. 1982 | North Ridge |
| 20 | Hiroshi YOSHINO | x | Jp | 14. 08. 1982 | North Ridge |
| 21 | Hironobu KAMURO | x | Jp | 15. 08. 1982 | North Ridge |
| 22 | Haruichi KAWAMURA | x | Jp | 15. 08. 1982 | North Ridge |
| 23 | Tatsuji SHIGENO | x | Jp | 15. 08. 1982 | North Ridge |
| 24 | Kazushige TAKAMI | x | Jp | 15. 08. 1982 | North Ridge |
| 25 | Agostino DA POLENZA | x | It | 31. 07. 1983 | North Ridge |
| 26 | Josef RAKONCAJ | x | Cz | 31. 07. 1983 | North Ridge |
| 27 | Sergio MARTINI | x | It | 04. 08. 1983 | North Ridge |
| 28 | Fausto DE STEFANI | x | It | 04. 08. 1983 | North Ridge |
| 29 | Norbert JOOS | x | CH | 19. 06. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 30 | Marcel RUEDI | x | CH | 19. 06. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 31 | Erhard LORETAN | x | CH | 06. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 32 | Pierre MORAND | x | CH | 06. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 33 | Jean TROILLET | x | CH | 06. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 34 | Eric ESCOFFIER | x | F | 06. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 35 | Daniel LACROIX | x | F | 07. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 36 | Stephane SCHAFFTER | x | CH | 07. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 37 | Kazunari MURAKAMI | Jp | 24. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 38 | Noboru YAMADA | x | Jp | 24. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 39 | Kenji YOSHIDA | Jp | 24. 07. 1985 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 40 | Wanda RUTKIEWICZ | f x | Pol | 23. 06. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 41 | Liliane BARRARD | f x | F | 23. 06. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 42 | Maurice BARRARD | x | F | 23. 06. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 43 | Michel PARMENTIER | x | F | 23. 06. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 44 | Mari ABREGO | x | E | 23. 06. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 45 | Josema CASIMIRO | x | E | 23. 06. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 46 | Giovanni CALCAGNO | x | It | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 47 | Benot CHAMOUX | x | F | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 48 | Soro DOROTEI | x | It | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 49 | Martino MORETTI | x | It | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| Josef RAKONCAJ | x | Cz | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 50 | Tullio VIDONI | x | It | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 51 | Beda FUSTER | x | CH | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 52 | Rolf ZEMP | x | CH | 05. 07. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 53 | Jerzy KUKUCZKA | x | Pol | 08 .07. 1986 | South Face (Central Rib) |
| 54 | Tadeusz PIOTROWSKI | x | Pol | 08 .07. 1986 | South Face (Central Rib) |
| 55 | Bong-Wan JANG | SK | 03. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 56 | Byong-Ho CHANG | SK | 03. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 57 | Chang-Sun KIM | SK | 03. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur | |
| 58 | Petetr BOK | x | Slk | 03. 08. 1986 | SSW Pillar (MagIt Line) |
| 59 | Przemysaw PIASECKI | x | Pol | 03. 08. 1986 | SSW Pillar (MagIt Line) |
| 60 | Wojciech WR | x | Pol | 03. 08. 1986 | SSW Pillar (MagIt Line) |
| 61 | Wilhelm BAUER | x | A | 04. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 62 | Alfred IMITZER | x | A | 04. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 63 | Alan ROUSE | x | UK | 04. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 64 | Kurt DIEMBERGER | x | A | 04. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 65 | Julie TULLIS | f x | UK | 04. 08. 1986 | Abruzzi Spur |
| 66 | Hirotaka IMAMURA | Jp | 09. 08. 1990 | NW Face - North Ridge/ | |
| Face | |||||
| 67 | Hideji NAZUKA | Jp | 09. 08. 1990 | NW Face - North Ridge/ | |
| Face | |||||
| 68 | Gregory CHILD |
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