Just to add to the insurance comments, this time not life but medical/evacuation insurance: many policies limit coverage to below trailhead, below 10,000 ft or other low limits, or even limit to medical issues like broken legs and heart attacks but not high altitude illnesses. Read the fine print. Standard policies do this, so if you get a $ 45 standard medical evacuation policy for your trip to K2 it will cover nothing. Full coverage will cost much more.
As for K2 books, nothing compares to Charles Houston's well written book . 1953. The famous Art Gilkey story. Title: K2. The Savage Mountain
Last edited by Harvey Lankford; 07/25/14 01:49 PM.
