Why honor a woman who thought more of her own glory than she did of her own children? What she achieved was depriving her family of a wife and mother. A real role model!
K2 has become mythical IMO. I have a friend who is a climber and I read a couple books of his and became fascinated with this mountain. The sheer "steepness" of it must be incredible. Its isolation. Its "exposure" to the elements. The weather. The fact if you get caught up there, there are no fixed ropes so you're doomed. I read an excerpt by the son of the original Everest climber who described what it must have been like up there when A. Hargreaves perished. Best books on K2?
I'm reading a book now called "Savage Summit". It documents the first five women to climb the mountain, all of whom are dead now. I really like it because, unlike other mountaineering books, it doesn't describe the events as much as it describes the people.
Yes. I looked through that book. I didn't read it page by page but I read a good deal of it. This is going to sound really chauvinistic but the only woman of the five who really "carried her weight" was Alison Hargreaves. The others had porters and partners do alot of the heavy lifting as far as getting supplies up the mountain and setting up camps, etc. Alison did all that stuff.... She made a bad decision that day going up the mountain though as did her 6 or 7 companions.
Actually Julie Tullis was a trooper too. She was not experienced comparitively having summitted one 8,000 meter peak previously with her friend and climbing partner Kurt Diemburger. She and Kurt summited very late that evening. Alan Rouse and others had tried to talk them out of it. After summiting K2 she almost immediately fell on the descent. She was attached to Kurt with a rope. He thought it was "all over" but they miraculously stopped their fall. They spent the night outside at 8,000M.
@Pregolegs Great book! I got chills when the author relates an incident in 1992 on K2 -Thor Kieser and Scott Fischer were at Base Camp sleeping when they were awaken by a voice on the radio calling from Camp 4 to Base Camp. There was no one at Camp 4. They heard it again. A British voice, female. I actually crossed myself after reading it.
yes, because shes a woman she is not as strong as a man. so yeah she earned her recognition.bet you you couldnt do that shit.
lolacastellano13 1 month ago
Omg, she's a woman, so she needs to be recognized! LOLz?!
mutlipass 7 months ago
She's My Great Aunt (:
Honestly (:
FairyxCakesx 8 months ago
JULIE JUST LIVED THE LIFE SHE WISHED....AS MANY OTHERS ! WITH KURT...WITHOUT KURT...WHATEVER....SHE LIVED HER DREAMS ! SAME TO MANY OTHERS....
3himalaya 1 year ago
I remember watching Blue Peter in ore of Julie's achievments, I had just been introduced to climbing.
I remeber finding out she had not come home and was so upset. Such a sad loss but what greatness she achieved!
wolvobird 2 years ago
Excellent!!!Wonderful Women
alikhanskt 2 years ago
July taught me rock climbing at school , she was a wonderful woman.
tarquintim 3 years ago
Why honor a woman who thought more of her own glory than she did of her own children? What she achieved was depriving her family of a wife and mother. A real role model!
acr08807 3 years ago
wonderfully expressed, great words!!!
hammadthegreat 3 years ago
hats of to this lady! she has achived something that let alone another women even a man would think twice before climbing k2
welldone
adnanshah170883 3 years ago
K2 has become mythical IMO. I have a friend who is a climber and I read a couple books of his and became fascinated with this mountain. The sheer "steepness" of it must be incredible. Its isolation. Its "exposure" to the elements. The weather. The fact if you get caught up there, there are no fixed ropes so you're doomed. I read an excerpt by the son of the original Everest climber who described what it must have been like up there when A. Hargreaves perished. Best books on K2?
kentucy9999 3 years ago
I'm reading a book now called "Savage Summit". It documents the first five women to climb the mountain, all of whom are dead now. I really like it because, unlike other mountaineering books, it doesn't describe the events as much as it describes the people.
Pregolegs 3 years ago
Yes. I looked through that book. I didn't read it page by page but I read a good deal of it. This is going to sound really chauvinistic but the only woman of the five who really "carried her weight" was Alison Hargreaves. The others had porters and partners do alot of the heavy lifting as far as getting supplies up the mountain and setting up camps, etc. Alison did all that stuff.... She made a bad decision that day going up the mountain though as did her 6 or 7 companions.
kentucy9999 3 years ago
Actually Julie Tullis was a trooper too. She was not experienced comparitively having summitted one 8,000 meter peak previously with her friend and climbing partner Kurt Diemburger. She and Kurt summited very late that evening. Alan Rouse and others had tried to talk them out of it. After summiting K2 she almost immediately fell on the descent. She was attached to Kurt with a rope. He thought it was "all over" but they miraculously stopped their fall. They spent the night outside at 8,000M.
kentucy9999 3 years ago
@Pregolegs Great book! I got chills when the author relates an incident in 1992 on K2 -Thor Kieser and Scott Fischer were at Base Camp sleeping when they were awaken by a voice on the radio calling from Camp 4 to Base Camp. There was no one at Camp 4. They heard it again. A British voice, female. I actually crossed myself after reading it.
ariamne1 1 year ago
She was a great climber! I've read about she in Kurt Diemberger's book about K2.
Elessar67 3 years ago
one of the great women of K2...
hybrydasp3 4 years ago