How One Fateful Climb Made The Sherpas Mountaineering Legends
by
Jonathan Neale
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2002
The true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains.
In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the...