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Life and Death on Mt. Everest : Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Life and Death on Mt Everest Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Author: 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 expedition far below. They stared at the frozen c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691074481
ISBN-10: 0691074488
Publication Date: 5/1/2001
Pages: 392
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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