Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, The World's Most Feared Mountain by Jordan, Jennifer - 2005

New York: William Morrow, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 303pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black paper with gray paper covered boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good plus. There are a couple of tiny stains on the top edge of the text block. The spine is ever so slightly rolled back. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. Lightly rubbed. Signed by Jennifer Jordan on the title page. From the jacket- "For most of the modern age 'woman climber' has been an oxymoron. Women were almost without exception relegated to the role of wife, widow, prostitute, royalty or slave. But sometime during the late nineteenth century, when the first woman cinched a rope around her waist and lashed her boots into bear claw-shaped steel crampons to climb up ice walls and steep snow slopes, war was declared on the status quo.