Climbing K2: Life and Death

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 1, 2010
One of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, Ed Viesturs was the first American to climb all fourteen eight-thousand meter mountains, and one of only six to do so without oxygen. He discusses his new book K2: Life & Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Broadway, 2009) and the climbing life.

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