Man and the Natural World Quotes in Three Cups of Tea

There's no other way to describe trying to climb K2 than a man versus nature smackdown. The word choice in this sentence proves it: razored, knife-edged, and Savage Peak. Yeah, this climb is gonna hurt.

Okay, so maybe that's why Mortenson perhaps made this whole section up. If that's the case, though, what's his excuse for the rest of the book?

Hmm… if we were tackling one of the highest mountains in the world, we're not quite sure if we'd smoke along the way. Maybe the cairn is marking the burial site of the smoking hiker.