Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain

Jennifer Jordan writes a book that is impossible to put down. The subject is fascinating, and the story is very thoughtfully written and meticulously researched. Savage Summit is a tribute to women mountaineers who are clearly a unique breed. There is so little written about women in the world of high altitude mountaineering. Fascinating. Anyone who is an endurance athlete, a high achiever, or aspiring to be either must read Savage Summit!

Jennifer's book is an excellent recollection of 5 women's stories of climbing an incredible 8,000 meter mountain, K2. There are very few books written about woman mountaineers so this was a sheer pleasure to find. I am a women mountaineer myself. I have yet to get to those peaks and through this book I better understanding their struggles in a man's world, love, desire and views. It truly touched my heart and mountain soul. Thank you Jennifer for all your work in such a wonderful work of love and curiousity! A must read that I have already recommended to several of my fellow mountaineer friends, male & female.

This is a great read. It's not so much a mountaineering book (though it is that) as a book about women, compassionately, respectfully and truthfully portrayed. It's been weeks since I read it, and I still think about it often, still think about these amazing women. I know I'll read this book again. I keep talking about it, recommending it, wanting to give it as a gift.

With tears in my eyes, I have just closed the last page of Savage Summit - I have not read a book that has touched me so in a very long while - the author wrote so succinctly about all the phases of climbing that I felt that I was right there scaling the ice faces with the climbers - The poignancy and the depth that she gave to each woman was so clear that you were able to have each and every one of them touch your heart - it is a perfectly marvelous book from every aspect - the details, the pain, the joy, and the depths of despair that these men and women went through is indelibly brought out by her writing - I cannot wait for her next book! - It is bound to be a best seller.