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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Ortner, Sherry B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Life and Death on Mt. Everest : Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering / Sherry B. Ortner. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©1999 1 online resource (392 p.) : 30 halftones 3 maps 1 table text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing, but an American climber observing the scene interpreted their thoughts: Nobody would throw the body of a white climber off Mt. Everest. For more than a century, climbers from around the world have journ-eyed to test themselves on Everest's treacherous slopes, enlisting the expert aid of the Sherpas who live in the area. Drawing on years of field research in the Himalayas, renowned anthropologist Sherry Ortner presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk. Ortner explores this relationship partly through gripping accounts of expeditions--often in the climbers' own words--ranging from nineteenth-century forays by the British through the historic ascent of Hillary and Tenzing to the disasters described in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. She reveals the climbers, or "sahibs," to use the Sherpas' phrase, as countercultural romantics, seeking to transcend the vulgarity and materialism of modernity through the rigor and beauty of mountaineering. She shows how climbers' behavior toward the Sherpas has ranged from kindness to cruelty, from cultural sensitivity to derision. Ortner traces the political and economic factors that led the Sherpas to join expeditions and examines the impact of climbing on their traditional culture, religion, and identity. She examines Sherpas' attitude toward death, the implications of the shared masculinity of Sherpas and sahibs, and the relationship between Sherpas and the increasing number of women climbers. Ortner also tackles debates about whether the Sherpas have been "spoiled" by mountaineering and whether climbing itself has been spoiled by commercialism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Mountaineering Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) History. Sherpa (Nepalese people). SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. bisacsh 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. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Gap Years 9783110784237 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691211770?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691211770 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691211770/original |
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