Winter 8000 by Bernadette McDonald (2020) California Detailed Supertopo guide to 59

Detailed Supertopo guide to 59 big routes at Washington Pass

February 1999

with color pictures printed on the inside boards and front and back endpapers

First American on Kamgchenjunga on cover

Hillary took a photograph of Tenzing on the summit

Winter 8000 by Bernadette McDonald (2020) California Detailed Supertopo guide to 59Climbing the world's highest mountains in the coldest season. An almost complete history of mountaineering on the 8,000 meter peaks in winter. I say almost complete because the Nepalis bagged K2 in winter in 2021, shortly after this book was published. K2 was the last of the 14 8,000 meter peaks to remain unsummited in winter. Climbing the 8000er in winter is a peculiar obsession, drawing only the most hardcore from across the world. The Poles have a