August 19, 2017

9 minutes

Available for over a year

In August 1995, the British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves was killed in an accident on K2 in the Himalayas. Lucy Burns tells her story through archive BBC interviews and the memories of her biographer and fellow climber, Ed Douglas.

PHOTO: Alison Hargreaves on Everest in 1995 (Press Association)