WOMEN OF MT K2 FIRST 5 WOMEN WHO SCALED K2

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K2 is called the “Savage Summit” and it’s earned the name. • First Five Women who Summited K2, All of whom are Dead. Examining who they were, why they climbed, and how they died and what it means for all who attempt the Savage Mountain. • In 1986 Polish climber Wanda Rutkiewicz became the first women ever to reach the top of K2 and was followed to the summit that same year by French climber Liliane Barrard and British climber Julie Tullis, both of whom died on their descent. Then in 1992, the summer that Rutkiewicz perished on Kangchenjunga, French alpinist Chantal Mauduit summitted K2, and survived, only to die six years later on another 8000 meter peak. Finally in 1995 British climber and mother Alison Hargreaves reached the top but was killed shortly after starting her descent. • These courageous, remarkable women can no longer tell their stories of defeating the ferocious mountain. • Mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, poets and engineers, the female pioneers of K2 were complex personalities in the controversial world of high altitude mountaineering, and their lives and deaths are a reminder of the high price climbers often pay to follow their dreams. • cir. 2004 • 🎥Jeff Rhoads -- Director, DP • Jennifer Jordan -- Producer, Writer • Read Jennifers book: https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Summit-...

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