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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781585653782 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 1585653780 Label: Goldhil Home Media Manufacturer: Goldhil Home Media Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Goldhil Home Media Release Date: July 01, 2000 Running Time: 52 minutes Sales Rank: 57643 Studio: Goldhil Home Media Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Rating: - JOHN ROSKELLEY IS WRONG...WOMEN CAN CLIMB WITH MEN
Christine Boskoff is a mountaineer who happens to be a woman. She is also the first American woman to have reached the summit of five 8,000 metre peaks and is looking to summit all fourteen of them. Gasherbrum 2, located in Pakistan in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas, is one of those peaks.
The video is part biographical in that it tells the viewer a little about Ms. Boskoff. She discusses how she became interested in climbing, her reasons for it, and gives some details as to her training for such a climb. She also runs the mountain guide firm, Mountain Madness, which she took over ... Read More
Rating: - A highly recommended video for community library collections
Ascent On G2: One Woman's Journey To The Top is the very impressively filmed documentary which follows Christine Boskoff as she and her intrepid team ascend to the summit of Gasherbrum II (G2), the fourteenth highest peak on planet Earth. This 26,320 feet climb over jagged, icy crevasses, past death-defying avalanches and unforgiving blizzards, through temperatures as harsh as forty degrees below zero is a remarkable, riveting excursion ultimately resulting in heavenly views of snow-capped mountains and a feeling of unparalleled accomplishment. Ascent On G2 is a highly recommended video for community ... Read More
