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[K2 climbers Rolf Bae and Cecilie Skog] shared in their love for the outdoors that others lacked. The mountains were the place where Skog and Bae could be together. It was where and how they expressed their love for one another…cruel then that K2 had cared nothing for that and wiped it blithely away.
A line from Graham Bowley’s epilogue in “No Way Down,” a tragic nonfiction account of the 2008 K2 disaster.