Jennifer Jordan | The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 | Award-winning author and filmmaker presents new book

Meet Jennifer Jordan
7pm Monday, November 22

Listen to Diane Rehm interview Jordan here.

Award-winning author and filmmaker Jennifer Jordan presents her book The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer, and a multi-media presentation with film footage and historic photos.

Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an even more formidable challenge than Mt. Everest. Although close to middle age and inexperienced at high altitude, Wolfe, with the team leader, made it higher than any other members of the expedition, but he couldn’t get back down.

Suffering from altitude sickness and severe dehydration, he was abandoned at nearly 25,000 feet; it would be another sixty-three years before Jennifer Jordan discovered his remains.

In a story where The Great Gatsby meets Into Thin Air, readers follow Wolfe from the salons of Europe to the most forbidding landscape on earth. Wolfe went to K2 to find his own strength, only to encounter his teammates’ lethal weaknesses in a place called the Death Zone.