Bibliograph

Buried in the sky, the extraordinary story of the Sherpa climbers on K2's deadliest day, Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan

Type

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Buried in the sky, the extraordinary story of the Sherpa climbers on K2's deadliest day, Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Buried in the sky

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

812254145

Responsibility statement

Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan

Sub title

the extraordinary story of the Sherpa climbers on K2's deadliest day

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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