[this seriously needs to be updated]
[taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2#Books_on_K2]
Books on K2 (Expeditions listed as per Curran)
edit1856 - British - Montgomerie
1861 - British - Godwin-Austen
1887 - British - Younghusband
- Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, 1896, (Yakushi Y27)
1889 - Polish - Grombczewski
- Martin Conway, Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas, 1894, (Yakushi C336a)
- Oscar Eckenstein, The Karakorams and Kashmir Himalayas, 1896, (Yakushi E10)
1902 - International - Eckenstein and Crowley
- Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 1969, (not in Yakushi)
- Dr Jules Jacot-Guillarmod, Six Mois dans l'Himalaya, le Karakorum et l'Hindu-Kush., 1904, (Yakushi J17), ( edition only)
1909 - Italian - Luigi Amedeo
- Filippo de Filippi, La spedizione nel Karakoram e nell'Imalaia occidentale, 1912, (Yakushi F71a), ( edition)
- Filippo de Filippi, Karakorum and Western Himalaya, 1912, (Yakushi F71b-I), ( edition)
- Filippo de Filippi, Karakorum and Western Himalaya, 1912, (Yakushi F71b-II), ( edition)
- Mirella Tenderini and Michael Shandrick, The Duke of Abruzzi: An Explorer's Life, 1977, (Yakushi xxx)
1929 - Italian - Aimone di Savoia-Aosta
- Aimone di Savoia-Aosta and Ardito Desio, La Spedizione Geografica Italiana al Karakoram, 1936, (Yakushi S670), ( edition only)
- Eric Shipton, Blank on the map, 1938, (Yakushi S432)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, Five Miles High, 1939, (Yakushi B165), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, Five Miles High, 1940, (Yakushi B165), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, Five Miles High, 2000, (not in Yakushi), ( SC edition)
- Jennifer Jordan, Last Man on the Mountain, 2010, (not in Yakushi), (Yet to be published, due August 2010)
- Andrew Kauffman and William Putnam, K2; The 1939 Tragedy, 1992, (Yakushi K66), ( edition)
- Andrew Kauffman and William Putnam, K2; The 1939 Tragedy, 1992, (Yakushi K66), ( edition)
- Fritz Wiessner, K2, Tragödien und Sieg am Zweithöchsten Berg der Erde, 1955, (Yakushi W152), ( edition only)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, The Savage Mountain, 1954, (Yakushi H429a-I), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, The Savage Mountain, 1955, (Yakushi H429a-II), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, The Savage Mountain, 1979, (Yakushi H429a-III), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, The Savage Mountain, 2000, (Yakushi H429a-IV), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, Montange sans Pitié, 1954, (Yakushi H429b), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, Det ville fjellet, 1955, (Yakushi H429c), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, La montaña salvaje, 1956, (Yakushi H429d), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, der wilde Berg, 1953, (Yakushi H429e), ( edition)
- Charles Houston and Bob Bates, JAPANESE TITLE, 1956, (Yakushi H429f), ( edition)
- Charles Houston, Bob Bates and George Bell, K2, 8611m, 1954, (Yakushi H430), ( edition only)
- Ardito Desio, La conquista del K2. Seconda cima del mondo, 1954, (Yakushi D167a-I), ( 1st edition)
- Ardito Desio, La conquista del K2. Seconda cima del mondo, 1956, (Yakushi D167a-II), ( 2nd edition)
- Ardito Desio, La conquista del K2. Seconda cima del mondo, 195x, (Yakushi D167a-III), ( cheap edition)
- Ardito Desio, La conquista del K2. Seconda cima del mondo, 1988, (Yakushi D167a-IV), ( large edition)
- Ardito Desio, Ascent of K2. Second Highest Peak in the World, 1955, (Yakushi D167b), ( edition)
- Ardito Desio, Victory over K2. Second Highest Peak in the World, 1955, (Yakushi D167c), ( edition)
- Ardito Desio, K2. Zweiter Berg der Erde, 1956, (Yakushi D167d), ( edition)
- Ardito Desio, La conquête du K2, 1955, (Yakushi D167e), ( edition)
- Ardito Desio, La conquista del K2, segunda cima del mundo, 1955, (Yakushi D167f), ( edition)
- Ardito Desio, Erövringen av K2, 1955, (Yakushi D167g), ( edition)
- Ardito Desio, JAPANESE TITLE, 1960, (Yakushi D167h), ( edition)
- Walter Bonatti, The Mountains of My Life, 2001, (Yakushi xxx)
- Walter Bonatti, Processo al K2, 1985, (Yakushi B453), ( edition)
- Walter Bonatti, K2. La verità. 1954-2004, 2005, (not in Yakushi), ( edition)
- Achille Compagnoni, Uomini sul K2, 1958, (Yakushi C328), ( edition only)
- Achille Compagnoni, Tricolore sul K2, 1965, (Yakushi C329), ( edition only)
- Achille Compagnoni, K2: conquista italiana tra storia e memoria, 2004, (not in Yakushi), ( edition only)
- Ardito Desio, Libro Bianco, 1956, (Yakushi D168), ( edition only)
- Mario Fantin, Sogno Visuto, 1958, (Yakushi F10), ( edition only)
- Lino Lacedelli and Giovanni Cenacchi, K2: il prezzo della conquista, 2004, (not in Yakushi), ( edition)
- Lino Lacedelli and Giovanni Cenacchi, K2: The Price of Conquest, 2006, (not in Yakushi), ( edition)
- Robert Marshall, K2. Lies and Treachery, 2009, (not in Yakushi)
1960 - German / American - Hackett
- REWRITE!!; Conform to the following; YEAR - EXPEDITION_LEADER / AUTHOR, TITLE, DATE_OF_PUBLICATION, (Yakushi ENTRY), ( edition (only))
- ISBN Numbers serve no purpose at all
- Expand with all works noted in Yakushi, all books shelved, all the ones mentioned in indexes
- Add more and fill in Yakushi numbers
- Change Yakushi to Yakushi and create that page?
- Use Flagicon like or what?
- Make sure to eliminate disambiguity pages
- Should we follow the listings as per Curran?, as per Yakushi?, or add everything we know of that is related to the history of K2?
- Should we bundle all 1986 expeditions?
- Synch these books with GRID_VIEW.
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