Life and Death on Mt. Everest : Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering /

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The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ortner, Sherry B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Mountaineering > Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) > History.
Sherpa (Nepalese people)
Allison, Stacy.
American Himalayan Foundation.
Bauer, Paul.
Boardman, Pete.
Dalai Lama.
Dumji festivals.
Gelungma Palma.
Hansen, Peter.
Herzog, Maurice.
Himalayan Trust.
Kellas, A. M.
KushoTulku.
Laird, Thomas.
Lopsang.
Messner, Reinhold.
Nupki Gyelwu.
Paul, Robert.
Sangye Tenzing.
Tabei, Junko.
Unsworth, Walt.
military approach to mountaineering.
money, and Sherpa motivation.
religion.
romanticism.
Sherpa (Peuple du Népal)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Mountaineering.
Asia > Mount Everest.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON THE READER
  • 1. Beginning
  • 2. Sahibs
  • 3. Sherpas
  • 4. Monks
  • 5. Death
  • 6. Men
  • 7. Counterculture
  • 8. Women
  • 9. Reconfigurations
  • 10. Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Tables
  • Appendix B. Monasteries
  • Notes
  • References Cited
  • Index

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