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Title: Tenzing Norgay & the Sherpas of Everest by Tashi Tenzing ISBN: 0-07-141309-X Publisher: Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A unique sherpa's view on Everest expedition
Comment: This book written by a grandson of Tenzing Norgay, the most renown Sherpa, and his wife living in Sydney is very unique, as all other previously published books on Everest expeditions or anthropology of Sherpas were written by so-called "non-Sherpa" mountaineers born and grown-up outside of Himalaya region. This book tells us a fascinating "insider's" story about the development of sherpas' community with the discovery of the highest peak on the earth (Mt. Everest) in Hamalaya region, and a subsequent increasing rush by overseas mountain-climbers to this rather remote and isolated region of earth. The 1953 great success by the sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand in reaching the summit of Everest for the first time opened the "golden" age of Himalaya trekking, and changed dramatically the way of life in Sherpas' community, better or worse, depending on the given aspects. Among many inspiring episodes interwoven in this book, the life-long "multi-cultural" friendship of the Swiss climber Raymond Lambert and the NZ climber Sir Edmund Hillary with Tenzing Norgay and his family is most moving for myself, a Japanese amateur alpinist living overseas for more than three decades. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first ascent, we have recently translated this book into Japanese, and are planning to publish it for Japanese youth and olds in 2003. The German, French and Italian versions of this book are also scheduled to be published around May 29, 2003, comemmorating this historical event or moment. Depending on your own mother tongue, you are highly encouraged to read one of these five versions including the original English to share the excitement associated with scaling the world-highest peak with the sherpas in Himalaya region or those now working overseas in a variety of fields other than mountaineering.
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Title: Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay ISBN: 0062516884 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Tenzing: Hero of Everest by Ed Douglas ISBN: 0792269837 Publisher: National Geographic Society Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal by James F. Fisher ISBN: 0520069412 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale ISBN: 0312266235 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest by Anne Keiser, Cynthia Russ Ramsey ISBN: 0740729500 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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