" [Everest’s] fatality rate - the percentage of climbers who went above Base Camp and died - had averaged 0.7 the previous decade [1998 - 2008]…In 2008, the fatality rate of those leaving [K2] base camp for a summit bid was 30.5%, higher than the casualty rate at Omaha Beach on D-Day. "

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