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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Zuckerman, Peter.
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Mountaineering -- Pakistan -- K2 (Mountain)
Mountaineers -- Pakistan -- K2 ( Mountain)
Mountaineering accidents -- Pakistan -- K2 ( Mountain)
Sherpa (Nepalese people)
Sherpa (Nepalese people) -- Social life and customs.
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Buried in the sky : ...
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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.
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Zuckerman, Peter.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Subjects
Mountaineering -- Pakistan -- K2 (Mountain)
Mountaineers -- Pakistan -- K2 ( Mountain)
Mountaineering accidents -- Pakistan -- K2 ( Mountain)
Sherpa (Nepalese people)
Sherpa (Nepalese people) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780393079883 (hbk.)
0393079880 (hbk.)
Description:
xvi, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
The death zone -- Ambition. summit fever ; Doorway to heaven ; The prince and the porter ; The celebrity ethnicity ; Insha'Allah -- Conquest. The approach ; Weather gods ; Ghost winds ; Through the bottleneck -- Descent. Escape from the summit ; Sonam ; Survival ; Buried in the sky ; The Fearless Five ; The next life.
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Presents the stories of the sherpas who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when eleven other climbers died on K2 in August 2008.
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Hanapepe Public Library
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796.52209 Zu
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796.52209 Zu
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Hilo Public Library
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796.52209 Zuckerman
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796.5220 Zu
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Lihue Public Library
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796.52209 Zuckerman
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