 The book was awarded the 2012 NCTE George Orwell Award, the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award for mountain history, the National Outdoor Book Award for History., the Independent Publishers Association award for general non-fiction, and the American Society of Journalists and Author's Outstanding Book Award for general non-fiction.In 2019, Outside Magazine chose "Buried in the Sky" as part of a "Contemporary Adventure Canon" made up of the best contemporary adventure books of all time.Zuckerman has received numerous journalism awards, including the Livingston Award, the National Journalism Award and the C.B.