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

By Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan
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By Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan
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Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature


"Gripping, intense…Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]." —Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe

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 ...

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