72 FOOTFALLS

Helen Mort

Posted on: October 7, 2013

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[Illustration] Alex Nabaum

Eighteen years after her death on K2, the memory of the great Alison Hargreaves still haunts the climbing community. An English poet, Helen Mort, looks between the lines of books and articles, and amid the gaps and silences of history, in search of connection and understanding.

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