Buried in the Sky
The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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Narrated by:
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David Doersch
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Written by:
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Peter Zuckerman
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Amanda Padoan
About this listen
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.
Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan explore the intersecting lives of Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, following them from their villages high in the Himalaya to the slums of Kathmandu, across the glaciers of Pakistan to K2 Base Camp. When disaster strikes in the Death Zone, Chhiring finds Pasang stranded on an ice wall, without an axe, waiting to die. The rescue that follows has become the stuff of mountaineering legend.
At once a gripping, white-knuckled adventure and a rich exploration of Sherpa customs and culture, Buried in the Sky re-creates one of the most dramatic catastrophes in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective.
©2012 Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan (P)2013 Audible, Inc.What the critics say
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- toby snelgrove
- 2018-08-08
Incredible- a must read
Having read other other reports of mountain tragedies, I was blown away with the depth of reporting on the too often untold story of the guides and support personnel. Masterful work and quality reading.
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- Georgiana Stewart
- 2020-04-12
Great book spoiled by poor narration
Horrible imitations of accents and sound effects made a fabulous book excruciating to listen to.
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- C Koss
- 2019-07-10
story was good but too much folklore
the actual story I enjoyed but a good part of the beginning of the book was on the local folklore which I didn't understand why it was necessary to go through that
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- Guillaume Knowlden
- 2019-09-17
Good story, narrator needs work
Storyline is great. A good mix of culture, history and climbing stories. The narrator though, needs to give up on the accents and the overemphasized pronunciation of certain words. Not everyone is in tune with the pronunciation of foreign words. Makes him sound pompous.
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- Laura
- 2023-01-03
Beautifully written
Well researched and written book, and the narrator does a beautiful job with all the pronunciation. Ignore the previous review regarding accents because he does great.
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- MoonShyne
- 2021-03-19
Misleading...more a history of sherpas then anything
This book is not what it seems. Contrary to being advertised as a book about events that happened on K2 in 2008 it is actually a long drawn out history about sherpas and nothing to do with the events on K2 I got a couple hours into it and simply couldn’t stand it anymore. The worst part is I actually paid money for this as opposed to using a creditSo now I have to wait 10 days to get my money back to buy another book which really sucks. From now on I will only use my credits and not take a chance spending money on a book in order to have to wait two weeks for a refund! Grrr.
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