Annie Garrett (Robin Tunney) is part of an expedition aiming for the summit of K2, the second highest peak in the world. The ascent seems to be going fine, but the team is failing to receive storm warnings & is thus ignorant of the danger awaiting it. Eventually an avalanche strikes, & Annie is left stranded, trapped in a crevasse with millionaire expedition leader Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton). Annie's brother Peter (Chris O' Donnell) then launches a rescue mission, gathering together a team of dedicated mountaineers
- including Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn), a climber whose wife was lost in Wick's previous expedition
- as he races to save his sister from certain death.

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Annie Garrett (Robin Tunney) is part of an expedition aiming for the summit of K2, the second highest peak in the world. The ascent seems to be going fine, but the team is failing to receive storm warnings & is thus ignorant of the danger awaiting it. Eventually an avalanche strikes, & Annie is left stranded, trapped in a crevasse with millionaire expedition leader Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton). Annie's brother Peter (Chris O' Donnell) then launches a rescue mission, gathering together a team of dedicated mountaineers
- including Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn), a climber whose wife was lost in Wick's previous expedition
- as he races to save his sister from certain death.

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A set of mountaineering memoirs of one of Britain's leading mountaineers that was shortlisted for the Boardman/ Tasker Award. This work describes his development as a climber initially under the tutelage of his widowed father, then with school friends in London, then to Britain's esoteric haunts, & finally in the Alps, the Andes & the Himalaya. ...

US manufacturing export share of GDP grew by 140 percent between 1960 & 2006. At the same time, vertical specialisation (VS) trade, trade in goods incorporating imported inputs, has expanded rapidly. This book examines vertical specialisation & value-added trade & the significant change in the types of intermediate goods traded globally. ...

Details the lives & accomplishments of influential climbers. Aimed at all climbing enthusiasts, this book profiles nine of the world's best young climbers in their own words & through conversations with their peers, to create an intimate portrait, revealing their personalities, drive, passion, openness & intimacy. ...

Features Snow Management photographs, that creates an impressive document of the post-modern development of the Alps into a leisure theme park. This work also traces the remains of sublimity & mystery that the mountains have retained as a myth robbed of its magic in monochrome, black-&-white or delicately tinted light-dark images. ...

This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world
- India, Japan, China,
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At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, & fact clashes with memory. Sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme. ...