Illustrated lecture by Nandini Purandare, writer and editor, President, The Himalayan Club, editor of The Himalayan Journal; and Deepa Balsavar, writer, award-winning illustrator, Adjunct Professor, IDC School of Design, IIT – Bombay; co-authors of the internationally acclaimed book The Sherpa Trail: Stories from Darjeeling and Beyond (Roli Books) which received the Climbing Writing Award at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festiva, Canada and the Boardman Tasker Award at the Kendal Mountain Festival, UK.

Chair: Brig. Ashok Abbey

The story of a fast-disappearing community of Sherpa climbers without whom any exploration in the Himalaya would have been impossible. Nandini and Deepa set out on an adventure that began in 2012 and culminated on a book ten years later. The book focused on the Darjeeling Sherpas, who, centuries ago, first migrated from Tibet to Nepal and then to the foothills of the Himalaya in northern India, becoming renowned for their skills as expedition porters from the turn of the 20th century

(Collaboration: The Himalayan Club)