‘Buried in the Sky’ : story of two Nepali mountaineers
KATHMANDU: Award-wining American journalist Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan are bringing out a book ‘Buried in the Sky’, a true adventure story of two Nepali mountaineers who were involved in a rescue task during a mountaineering disaster on Mount K2 in Pakistan.
“I wanted to bring my book to Nepal before it comes out anywhere else because the story is about the famous mountaineers who live here,” Zuckerman said. The book will be released by the publishers W.W. Norton in North America on June 11.
Nepali mountaineers Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama are the two main characters of the book. It is said that the two characters of the book would answer questions and talk about how they pulled off some of the most difficult rescues in mountaineering history.
The deadliest single disaster in K2’s history occurred on August 1, 2008 and within 27 hours, a total of 11 climbers died.
The book ‘Buried in the Sky’ travels back to Chhiring and Pasang’s home villages, exploring their custom and culture, and then follows them to the slums of Kathmandu, it is said.
The book reveals the perspectives of men like Chhiring Dorje, a Sherpa hoping to ascend K2 without bottled oxygen; Pasang Lama, a Bhote hoping to transcend discrimination and his own impoverished childhood by proving himself with a Korean team; and Shaheen Baig, a prudent and experienced climber, born in a remote mountain village in the Hunza region of Pakistan, who had already climbed the mountain without bottled oxygen in 2004.
