Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the

by Lene Gammelgaard (Author), Lene Gammelgaard (Author)

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  'The situation right now is seven dead on K2. A big storm hit. My friends - all dead. It makes me realise how frail I relaly am. That we play a deadly game. I don't want to die. I want to live...' At 2.30 pm on 10 May 1996 Lene Gammelgaard become the first Scandinavian woman to scale the summit of Mt Everest. She was part of the Mountain Madness Expedition, which was let by experienced mountaineer and good friend, Scott Fischer. AFter the jubliation of reaching the top, Lene and her team scaled down into the clouds below where unbeknown to them, a storm was brewing. That evening was spent huddling together trying to uphold the team's spirit and keep each other warm in temperatures which can reach 30 degrees below. In the aftermath, 8 people had perished, including Fischer. Climbing High recounts that fateful summit day and examines the triumph and tragedy of modern mountaineering.