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The untold story of Dudley Wolfe and America’s ill-fated 1939 expedition to the roof of the world. In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. 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.
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Jennifer Jordan - BiographyJennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter, with many years experience as a journalist, broadcast producer, radio and television news anchor, voice-over/narration talent and motivational speaker.Most recently, she has ghost and/or co-written three books with wildly divergent themes: Perfect Strangers (with Roseann Sdoia) tells the horrific and poignant story of one woman losing her leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, while gaining a family in the three first responders who saved her life; Southern Discomfort (with Tena Clark) is a wildly funny and yet painfully raw story of one woman's coming of age in Jim Crow Mississippi; and The Babysitter (with Liza Rodman) is part memoir, part true crime thriller of a young girl who had a serial killer as one of her babysitters during her childhood summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2016, Jordan directed, wrote, and produced 3000 Cups of Tea: Investigating the Rise and Ruin of Greg Mortenson, a documentary that follows philanthropist Greg Mortenson's meteoric rise and devastating fall in the wake of a flawed "60 Minutes" expose on him and his work. While the film addresses the accusations leveled against him and his Central Asia Institute, it focuses on Mortenson's mission to build schools and educate girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a mission which was mortally, but not fatally, wounded by the scandal.In 2010, Jordan wrote The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (W. W. Norton) . It tells the story of Dudley Wolfe, the first man to die on K2 during the ill-fated 1939 expedition, whose remains Jordan found on the glacier below K2 base camp sixty-three years after his death. It won a 2010 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography and soon after publication was listed as a Best Seller in Sports books in the Wall Street Journal. She is currently negotiating an option on her screenplay of the remarkable story.In 2005 she wrote Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 (William Morrow) , which won the 2005 National Outdoor Book Award for Best Mountain Literature and was selected as an Editors' Choice by the New York Times. She also created, wrote, and co-produced the 2003 documentary Women of K2 for National Geographic, which was an official entry in scores of major film festivals, winning five.After the release of her first book and documentary, Jordan became a celebrated public speaker, and routinely addresses audiences of all ages and backgrounds on the many issues raised in her books and films.In 2008, she produced and wrote Kick Like a Girl, which won several international film festivals and premiered on HBO in May of 2009. She also juried the 2008 Ogden Mountain Adventure Film Festival. In 2009 she narrated and helped write the documentary Green River for KUED (PBS) in Salt Lake City. That year she also wrote on the television series Hooked: The Great White
