# @arcteryxnewyork on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BZWlgO9gNTM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13165850-arcteryxnewyork-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-09-22T18:12:06.000+00:00

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A memoir of adventure in one of the most dangerous places on the planet • The Karakoram is home to K2, the deadliest of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks The best mountain climbing in the world, Steve Swenson will tell you, is in the Karakoram. Swenson has been climbing in these mountains since 1980 and has a perspective on the land and its people like few others. A complex place, the Karakoram Range is located in Kashmir, a western Himalaya border region that has a long history of tension and conflict between China, India, and Pakistan, tensions that have only been magnified since 9/11. Over the course of more than thirty years climbing there, Swenson’s experiences have been laced with daunting challenges, exhilarating successes, and terrifying moments—caused by the risks inherent in alpine environments, as well as politics below spilling into the peaks above. In Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict, Swenson writes evocatively of his naiveté on his first visit to Pakistan for an attempt on Gasherbrum IV, during which he faced the teeming, bewildering streets of Islamabad and new challenges of dealing with a confusing array of bureaucrats, hiring hundreds of porters desperate for work, as well as the business of attempting to climb a towering peak just shy of 8,000 meters.
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Want to learn more about it? Steve will be at rei paragonsports and arcteryxsoho next week!
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For more info and to RSVP go event's page on facebook.com/arcteryxsoho .
#Celebratewild #mountaineering #outdoors #climbing #booksigning #karakoram #mountain

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outdoors, booksigning, mountain, mountaineering, climbing, celebratewild, karakoram

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