Book: Buried in the Sky
Author: Peter Zuckerman
Pages: 320
This is my 133rd read for the year
What Amazon says:
When 11 climbers died on K2 in 2008, 2 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 apline history from a fascinating new perspective.
This was an interesting book. I found it when researching something else and did not know there was a tragedy on K2 like there was on Everest (which I read in John Krakauer's book Into Thin Air). This is a book about the Sherpas and others who help the hikers up and down these mountains as much as it is about the tragedy. We learn the backstory of many of the Sherpas and climbers that lead to the fatal hike. Glad I found this one.
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