Mountaineering books always have a sort of car-crash appeal to me. It looking at something that's both riveting and horrifying at the same time. Buried in the Sky recounts the events of August 2008 in which 11 climbers - sherpas, high-altitude porters and seasoned climbers - died on K2, either tr...
I've done a fair bit of mountaineering in my time and remember four moments as if they happened yesterday. They all occurred on the same ascent, my first real ascent. The first happened on the way up. I was still below the tree line; a patch of snow - the first I encountered - was covering a p...