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Title: Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0062516876 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 5
Summary: Great in Audio too
Comment: This is one of many books telling the tale of the Spring 1996 season on Everest, during which 12 people died, but the only book written by a Sherpa. The author is the son of Tenzig Norgay who climbed Everest for the first time in 1953 with Edmund Hillary. The author weaves several stories into one--the tale of his own ascent, the story of his father's, and the tale of his personal quest to make peace with his famous father. Contrast this work with the well-known "Into Thin Air" to see the enormous difference between the way Westerners approach the mountain--as a challenge to be conquered--and the way the Sherpas view Everest--with a mixture of fear, awe, respect and love. The story of how this thoroughly modern man, educated in the U.S., comes to grips with the Buddhist faith is also fascinating.
A comment on the audio version: the book is read by the author's brother, a fact that made me hesitate at first because I often find non-professional readers to be much harder to listen to. Not the case here--the reader did a great job, and his slightly accented English gave the reading an air of authenticity that a native English reader's work would not have had. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Why climb mountains?
Comment: Norbu Norgay narrates the audio book of his brother Jamling Norgay's spiritually moving tribute to their enigmatic father Tenzing Norgay, Himalayan Sherpa people and Mount Everest, they call Chomolungma. With relationships to India, Nepal, Tibet, and America, always his father's son, he provides insights into the convergence of diverse cultures for ultimate mountaineering. Jamling's remarkable journey skillfully entwines his 1996 summit climb, for David Breashears' IMAX movie "Everest" with the footsteps of his father's 1953 historic premiere Everest summit climb with New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary. Sherpa religion teaches reverence for the gods, nature and to reach Everest's summit may mean death. They never take the smallest detail for granted because "many flakes of snow may cover an entire mountain with snow." This compelling book helps to answer why climb mountains, and ultimately celebrates the triumph of the human spirit.
Rating: 5
Summary: Norbu's reading voice makes Sherpa world come alive
Comment: Four audio tapes read by Norbu Tenzing (Jamling's older brother) energize this inspiring tale of a son's search for his father's spirit. Norbu, an experienced film narrator, brings a smooth, authentic Darjeeling Sherpa accent to Broughton Coburn's beautifully written text.
We learn that Tenzing was 51 when Jamling was born in 1965. Although Tenzing's six living children enjoyed a good education and family closeness, Father Tenzing was distant. When Tenzing died at age 72 in 1986, Jamling was a college student with many unanswered questions about his father's life and values. Jamling became a capable mountaineer & a father himself. He struggled to overcome doubt in his parents' profound Nyingmapa Buddhist values while retaining his own educated worldview.
That struggle ended during the disasterous 1996 Everest season. After many setbacks, while climbing through fierce winds past the dead bodies of failed climbers, Jamling's heart opened to his father's protectress: Miyolangsangma, goddess of Chomolangma. Jamling not only summitted Everest, his father's mountain; he also entered the inner heart of his father's Buddhist reality. Listeners who love the Himalaya. Buddhism, and Sherpa Culture will thrill this compelling interior and exterior adventure. (...)
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Title: Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest by Tashi Tenzing, Judy Tenzing, Edmund Hillary ISBN: 0071381805 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears ISBN: 0684865459 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud ISBN: 0440237084 Publisher: Dell Pub Co Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston Dewalt ISBN: 0312965338 Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father by Rick Ridgeway ISBN: B00006F7JF Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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