Click2Flicks - Vertical Limit - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>VERTICAL LIMIT</p> <p>A FIGHT TO SURVIVE K2</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch2.htm">2. K2</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch3.htm">3. ICE CAVES AND CREVASSES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch4.htm">4. MOUNTAIN SICKNESS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch5.htm">5. AVALANCHES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch6.htm">6. FIRST TO THE SUMMIT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch7.htm">7. DEATH ON THE MOUNTAIN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch8.htm">8. THE MYSTERY CONTINUES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch9.htm">9. ED VIESTURS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="vertical_limit_ch10.htm">10. VERTICAL LIMIT ON LOCATION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">What we get from this adventure<br> is just sheer joy.<br> And joy is, after all,<br> the end of life.</i><br><br> George Leigh Mallory<br> 1922</font></b></blockquote></div><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/images/mallory.jpeg" target="_blank"><b>George Mallory</b></a>, the legendary British mountain climber, was asked why he wanted to climb <a href="http://aleph0.clarku.edu/rajs/pictures/himal/everest.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Mt. Everest</b></a>. "Because it’s there," he said. Today, 75 years later, people are still climbing the great mountains of the world because they are "there&quot.</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mountain-images.co.uk/graphics_gallery_images/himalaya/mh05-0594_k2cloud.jpg"><b>K2</b></a>, the most dangerous mountain to climb, is in the Karakoram Range. At 28,250 feet (8,611 meters) no mountain - save Everest - is higher. But no mountain - even <a href="http://members.aol.com/mpokhrel/Sagarmatha.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Everest</b></a> - is <a href="http://classic.mountainzone.com/photo/viesturs/graphics/k2-edandscott.jpg" target="_blank"><b>steeper</b></a>.</p> <p>This is a story of the <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0893818089.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif" target="_blank"><b>majesty</b></a> - and mystery - of K2. And it is a story of death-defying, risk-taking, mountain-climbing courage. The kind of courage all humans possess but rarely find the need to use.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="vertical_limit_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>