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Uploaded by on Sep 17, 2007

An East Sussex family has returned from an expedition to the world's second highest peak K2 in Pakistan. They made their journey to honour the mother and grandmother they lost on the mountain twenty years ago.Julie Tullis was the first British woman to reach the summit in 1986 but died three days later from exposure.

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  • 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.

  • Omg, she's a woman, so she needs to be recognized! LOLz?!

  • She's My Great Aunt (:

    Honestly (:

  • @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.

  • JULIE JUST LIVED THE LIFE SHE WISHED....AS MANY OTHERS ! WITH KURT...WITHOUT KURT...WHATEVER....SHE LIVED HER DREAMS ! SAME TO MANY OTHERS....

  • 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!

  • Excellent!!!Wonderful Women

  • July taught me rock climbing at school , she was a wonderful woman.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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