Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award: "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 the most dramatic disasters in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective.
Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award and an official selection of the American Alpine Club Book Club.
16 pages of illustrations; 8 maps