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

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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Ortner, Sherry B.,
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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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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