Dr. Eric Meyer and Sherpa Chhiring Dorje

We are honored to welcome 12-time Everest summiter Sherpa Chhiring Dorje to Durango along with Dr. Eric Meyer and author Amanda Padoan for a special book signing and dinner in celebration of the new book Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa climbers on K2's Deadliest Day.  Dorje performed a harrowing rescue on K2 on the fateful day in 2008 when 11 climbers died, and Meyer was the expedition doctor who treated the survivors. 

Photo of Padoan courtesy of Pasang Lama, taken at Planters Club, Darjeeling, with oxygen bottles from the ill-fated 1924 Everest expedition

Dorje, Meyer and Padoan will attend both the book signing here at the shop and the ticketed buffet dinner afterwards at The Himalayan Kitchen, just a few doors away.  Tickets for the dinner are available here on our website or in the shop.  Seating is limited to 25.  Dinner is $18, and dinner and a signed book is $40 (saving you $7 on the cost of the book!).

Buried in the Sky  explores the intersecting lives of Chhiring Dorje and Pasang Lama, following them from their villages high in the Himalaya to the slums of Kathmandu, across the glaciers of Pakistan to K2 Base Camp. When disaster strikes in the Death Zone, Chhiring finds Pasang stranded on an ice wall, without an axe, waiting to die. The rescue that follows has become the stuff of mountaineering legend.  At once a gripping, white-knuckled adventure and a rich exploration of Sherpa customs and culture, Buried in the Sky re-creates one of the most dramatic catastrophes in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective.     

Please join us for this special event--and make sure your mountaineering friends know about this amazing opportunity to meet Sherpa Chhiring Dorje and Dr. Eric Meyer!  Thank you to our friends at Southwest Adventure Guides for co-sponsoring.