Forthcoming Memoir
Hard or Impossible?
Summiting K2 for Ida
“Alan Arnette took on K2 — the most dangerous mountain on earth — not for himself, but for his mother and the fight against Alzheimer’s. This is a story about what real purpose looks like at altitude.”Ed Viesturs — The only American to summit all 14 eight-thousanders without supplemental oxygen
58
Age on K2
7
Continents summited
$500K
Raised for Alzheimer’s
1 in 4
K2 climbers don’t return
From Chapter 1 · Gasping for Air
“A surge of debilitating fatigue overtook me. My shoulders drooped. I stared at my yellow boots, crushed by disappointment… My ice axe fell onto the snow. It was 12:30 a.m. on July 27, 2014 — my fifty-eighth birthday.”
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53,000 words · Foreword by Jim Davidson
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