The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (16 page)

Dudley at Hannes Schneider’s Ski School, Tyrol, Austria, 1933.
(Courtesy of the Dudley F. Rochester and Dudley F. Wolfe Family)

Dudley and Alice motoring through Europe in his 1938 Buick Phaeton.
(Courtesy of the Dudley F. Rochester and Dudley F. Wolfe Family)

Fritz H. Wiessner.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Vittorio Sella, Jack Durrance, Fritz Wiessner, and Dudley Wolfe, March 19, 1939.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Cromwell, Wolfe, Sheldon, Wiessner, and Cranmer aboard the
Biancamano. (Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Conte Biancamano
Dining Room.
(Courtesy of Serge Guyot)

Cranmer and Susie aboard the
Biancamano. (Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Dudley skiing above Srinagar.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Wiessner, center, choosing porters near Srinagar.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Dudley soaking his feet on the approach march.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Team at Urdukas Camp, back row left to right, Durrance, Trench, Cromwell, Wiessner, Amarnath, Chandra, Cranmer, Wolfe, Sheldon, with sherpas sitting in front.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Cranmer crossing a glacial stream.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)

Team approaches Concordia with G IV looming on the horizon.
(Courtesy of the George C. Sheldon Family)