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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ortner, Sherry B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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