Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

✍ Scribed by Zuckerman, Peter; Padoan, Amanda

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2012;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0393345416

✦ Synopsis

"When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world's most dangerous mountain, recounting one of the most dramatic disasters in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective"--;List of maps -- List of characters -- Author's note -- Prologue: the death zone -- Summit fever -- Doorway to heaven -- The prince and the porter -- The celebrity ethnicity -- Insha'Allah -- The approach -- Weather gods -- Ghost winds -- Through the bottleneck -- Escape from the summit -- Sonam -- Survival -- Buried in the sky -- The fearless five -- The next life -- Acknowledgments -- Background notes.