Into Thin Air
Meet the ‘sisterhood of the rope,’ the fearless female climbers who have summited the world’s highest mountain—and had to combat vicious gender stereotypes along the way.
Amanda Padoan is co-author of Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day, which won the National Outdoor Book Award and the ASJA Book Award.
Meet the ‘sisterhood of the rope,’ the fearless female climbers who have summited the world’s highest mountain—and had to combat vicious gender stereotypes along the way.
Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan on an unusual fight between western climbers and Buddhist Sherpas