Life and Death on Mt. Everest : : Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering / / Sherry B. Ortner.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 30 halftones 3 maps 1 table |
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