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

On August 1, 2008, eleven climbers died on K2 in a single day. Zuckerman and Padoan reconstruct the disaster through the eyes of the Sherpa who survived — workers largely invisible in the heroic narratives Western climbers tell about themselves. The mountain killed without distinction, but the story of who was there and why is a story about the economics of risk and the hierarchy of whose death gets mourned.