Amanda Padoan discusses "Buried in the Sky" at Diesel Bookstore

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes local author Amanda Padoan to the store to discuss and sign her riveting new book, Buried in the Sky, on Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm. She will be joined in a very special appearance by Chhiring Dorje, one of the two heroic Sherpa climbers featured in the book.

In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. 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. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky tells their astonishing story for the first time, following them from their villages high in the Himalaya to the slums of Kathmandu, across the glaciers of Pakistan to K2 Base Camp. 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.

Amanda Padoan is a mountaineer and alpine historian. She studied literature at Harvard University and law at Pepperdine School of Law. Amanda writes for Explorersweb and is a contributor to Rock and Ice and The Alpinist. She lives in Los Angeles.